svn commit: r487260 - head/Mk

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Log:
>   Update the default version of GCC pulled in via USE_GCC=yes and a myriad
>   other ways from GCC 7 (7.4 right now) to GCC 8 (8.2 right now).
>
>   This is the first time for eons, if not forever, that we are on the most
>   recent major version of GCC, a catch-up that's been taking more than two
>   years with the great help of many fellow committers and volunteers.

And a big "Thank You!" to everyone who helped pave the way for this 
update (and the ones) before.  

Without your help this would not have been possible!

Gerald (who in theory doesn't have much, if any, time for FreeBSD these days)