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@@ -50,15 +50,14 @@ Supported versions ------------------ Unless the `version` parameter value is "latest", the ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -PPA is used to make more GCC versions available. +PPA is used to make more versions available. You can pass the version number as the `version` parameter value (`4.8`, `8`, -`9`, etc.), and this action will install the corresponding `g++-VERSION` -package. +`9`, etc.), and this action will install the corresponding packages. The `version` parameter value is not checked for being an available version for the current distribution. -The supported versions for a particular distribution are those found in the -official repositories & those found in that distribution's series in the PPA. +The supported versions for a particular distribution are those found in that +distro's repositories & those in the PPA. For example, the supported versions for Bionic & Focal as of July 2021 are listed below. @@ -73,8 +72,8 @@ listed below. | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | 11 | ✓ | ✓ -This table is not definitive; I expect more future versions of GCC to be made -available in the PPA, especially for Focal. +This table is not definitive; I expect more future versions to be made +available, especially for Focal. On Cygwin, the `version` parameter is ignored. |