On 16.10.2015 11:18, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
Hi,
The last compiler update two years ago in Boost 1.55 left MSVC-7.1 and GCC 3.3 as two of the oldest supported compilers:
That's about Boost.Config supporting macros from these compilers up. It doesn't mean that all libraries support these compilers.
I have no access to GCC 3.3 but managed to get a Mingw-based GCC 3.4.
I will run regressions for for both mingw-GCC-3.4 and msvc-7.1 in master and develop branches in case anyone is interested. I plan to maintain support for them in Move, Intrusive, Container and Interprocess until we reach consensus on a new compiler update.
FWIW, I think these ancient compilers are long beyond saving. We have not been testing them for years, and from the test matrix it is clear that MSVC-7.1 has been broken terribly but noone complained. Noone seems to care about it anymore.