Hi Harald,

> I'm not quite sure if I follow your argument here.  From my point of
> view, the importance is that we test build on those platforms/compilers
> that most of our users actually use.  So I would rather argue for
> testing with (the gcc versions of) various recent releases of popular
> GNU/Linux distributions or on different CPUs such as ARM, than to
> introduce a compiler version that isn't even included in latest FreeBSD
> (11).

Thanks for response, your point of view makes sense.

> Also, as a compromise proposal: we don't necessarily have to do it as
> part of the testing of each and every commit.  It might be sufficient to
> do this e.g. once as part of a daily/nightly job which sends e-mails to
> the author of the commit that broke?

Great idea! Let's see, what other developers think about that...