[ruby-core:112118] [Ruby master Misc#19353] Drop gcc <= 6 and clang <= 9

Issue #19353 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).


eightbitraptor (Matthew Valentine-House) wrote in #note-2:
> If we're assuming that Ruby itself targets `C99`, does this mean that dropping `GCC6` would allow us to relax the testing requirement for `C++98`? 6.0 is the last version that defaults to `C++98` according to [this documentation](https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx98)

I think dropping gcc 6 and dropping C++98 are different things.

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Misc #19353: Drop gcc <= 6 and clang <= 9
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19353#change-101553

* Author: shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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We test those old compilers using Ubuntu bionic. This OS is reaching its EOL.
Making them available would become harder.

I would like to drop supporting them.  Any opinions?



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