Comment # 6 on bug 1042090 from Wolfgang Rosenauer

(In reply to Kriton Kyrimis from comment #4)
> According to the pale moon developers, the Mozilla platform code is very
> sensitive regarding what optimizations can be used with which compiler.
> Switching to gcc 7 and keeping the custom optimization options, that used to
> work with gcc 6, was pretty risky,

�hm, switching a distrbution of 10.000 different packages to gcc 7 indeed is
risky. Problem is that build failures are easy to spot but visual issues need
either a openQA testcase or human testing I guess.
It's quite easy to miss out on some things.