[Dune] Comment on compiler discussion.

[Oliver Sander]

On the subject of differences between compilers, you may find the following
interesting

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lines-of-code-later/fulltext

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky :-)

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Oliver

Robert Kloefkorn schrieb:
> Dear folks,
>
> just on comment to the question whether to drop gcc 3.4.x and icc7.
>
> To my opinion we should drop the support of these old compilers.
> Nobody is using these anymore. Otherwise, some people would complained 
> about code that is not compiling much earlier. Also, to maintain the 
> software for various compiler is more time consuming, time that we 
> could use to do better things (e.g. make SGrid faster....).
>
> Standard conformity of a compiler does not mean much. There is a C++ 
> standard, ok. But actually the standard is defined by the compilers 
> mostly used, whether you like it or not. And this is why we have to 
> stick to what the compilers we want to use (all of them) allow us to do.
>
> From this point of view we should support standard compilers compilers 
> such as gcc4.1.2 and gcc4.3.4, for example. Also, the current version 
> of icc (or that not to old version somebody has a license for). It 
> might be clever to also support compilers like xlc, if possible.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> R
>


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