Subject: Re: bug#18743: 25.0.50; Clang 3.0 fails to compile src/fns.c, GCC 4.8 cannot dump emacs

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:01:39 -0500

Peter Dyballa <[email-masked]> writes:

> Am 3.12.2017 um 20:24 schrieb Noam Postavsky:
>
>> So only 3.0 fails with this, while both earlier and later versions
>> succeed?
>> 
>>> 	fns.c:1929:16: error: read-only variable is not assignable
>>> 	          *dest++ = *a++;
>>> 	                     ~^
>>> 
>
> Yes, obviously.

Thanks, it was not clear to me which clang versions were current at the
time of the original report (i.e., if 3.0 represented the "latest and
greatest", or something else).

> Today I do not have Clang 3.0 installed on my MacBook
> (with Clang 3.7.1 and newer compilation succeeds) and neither on my
> old PowerBook. Also Clang 3.0 is not supported any more by MacPorts, a
> packet manager for GNU and other free software.

So I think we should just close this as wontfix; no point in working
around bugs in obsolete compiler versions.