Comment # 2 on bug 934689 from C.J. Dekker

Do you know when Suse SLES 12 gets an updated compiler?

As far as I know, compilers are usually not replaced in a SLES release, until a
next major release is announced. That means that we have to apply the
-fpermissive flag (which is pretty useful in other cases) or to apply our own
workaround (sizeof(long) == 8 ? 8 : sizeof(long)). In other words: that may
take years in worst case. Is there a possibility to request the SLES team to
provide an update to the compiler to fix this issue?

Regards,
Kees