Is there any reason to ask this? GCC plugins have been good since 4.8. 4.5 lacked some essential features; 4.6 would be fine if not for the annoyance of trying

Is there any reason to ask this? GCC plugins have been good since 4.8. 4.5 lacked some essential features; 4.6 would be fine if not for the annoyance of trying to support a plugin that works across the C++ transition. Of course, you can just use the Python plugin to save yourself a lot of sanity ...