[dune-pdelab] Current policy for gcc compatibility?

[Markus Blatt]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Christoph Grüninger wrote:
> Having a look at http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html we would support
> at least 4.3 (GCC 4.3.6 was released June 27, 2011) for the next
> three years.
> The last Dune release 2.2 tried to stay compatible with GCC 4.1
> because some users had (super) computers with this version
> installed. I doubt that this can be achieved for Dune 2.3. 

That is what is stated on the website. Unfortunately, it is not
entirely true as dune-geometry uses "extern template" which is not
supported by GCC 4.1


Markus
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