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TIL that OpenBSD 6.3, released in 2018, ships with GCC 4.2.1, released in 2007.

Wes

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@samth

Do they add backported changes?

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Marek, lost in Twıtter

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Can't because these changes would be GPLv3.

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A few features were independently backported, either because they were committed before the license changeover, or code authors were contacted. Examples of this are the -fstack-protector-strong, binary integer constant support, and perhaps others.