best way to handle GCC version detection

[Dimitry Andric]

On 27 Jun 2017, at 17:39, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have port I maintain that compiles fine under GCC 5 (or lower) but barfs
> on GCC 6.   A small modification will make it compile under 6 but the very
> same modification makes it incompatible with 5.   What is the best way to
> handle this and still allow USE_GCC=any ?

Something like:

#if __GNUC__ <= 5
   ...foo...
#else
   ...bar...
#endif

could maybe work?

-Dimitry

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