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

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:48:59 -0500

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  > gcc 4.8 works fine on GNU/Linux.
  > You are replying to a a three year old report about a problem one
  > person had on OS X 10.6, which was unsupported by Apple 4 years ago.
  > Meanwhile, there are 4000 open Emacs bug reports.

I don't keep track of MacOS versions, so I didn't know this.
That makes it less important, true.  But if a MacOS user wants to
work on it, we may as well make new Emacs versions work on that platform
as well with GCC as with Clang.

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