Feature #18839: Drop support for gcc 3

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Currently we require version 3 or newer when using gcc, but no CI for gcc 3.
Do we still need to support gcc 3?
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6037

Besides, I suspect we can drop old versions of gcc and clang more.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)

[byroot (Jean Boussier)]

Out of curiosity I went to check a few dates:

• First GCC 3.x release: June 18, 2001
• Last GCC 3.x release: March 06, 2006
• That was the default compiler up to RHEL4, which is out of support since November 30, 2020.

So IMHO, if even Red Hat no longer supports it, it's probably fine to drop it.

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

+1, it's hard to have a working gcc-3 environment nowadays.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

+1

The gcc version of CentOS/RHEL 7 that is our oldest supported Linux distribution is gcc-4.8.5-44.el7.x86_64.rpm.

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

Go. Probably no one is really using gcc3.x.

Matz.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|ec5c56412f0b67845b42acec06cbd1d341896f25.

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[Feature #18839] Drop support for gcc 3 [ci skip]