Re: master 37889523278: Add new `swap` macro and use it

[Stefan Kangas]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> AFAICT, that's related to a warning on PowerPC with GCC 4.7.
>>
>> Emacs doesn't support PowerPC as per etc/MACHINES, so the comment in
>
> Emacs doesn't support PowerPC on Mac OS X.  The only hardware to have
> received RYF certification from the FSF with performance competitive
> with PC compatibles released in recent years runs GNU/Linux on powerpc,
> so that architecture is far more relevant to us than SPARC or the s390
> or the like, all of which we support.  See:
>
>   https://ryf.fsf.org/news/raptor-talos-announcement

Is there any reason why it's not enough to ask PowerPC users to run GCC
4.8 (released in 2013) if they don't want to see that warning?