Status/2024Q1/gcc.adoc: Add report

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+=== GCC on FreeBSD
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+Links: +
+link:https://gcc.gnu.org/[GCC Project] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/[] +
+link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-10/[GCC 10 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-10/[] +
+link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/[GCC 11 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-11/[] +
+link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-12/[GCC 12 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-12/[] +
+link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/[GCC 13 release series] URL: link:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/[]
+
+Contact: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org>
+
+link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273397[Updating GCC default version to 13] is finally finished.
+Thanks to mailto:antoine@FreeBSD.org[Antoine Brodin] who ran the exp-runs and to all other developers and ports maintainers involved.
+
+As promised in the preceding report, the next goal is to reduce the number of open bugs for GCC ports.
+Some work on existing bugs has already started.
+
+In particular, package:lang/gcc14-devel[] has long stayed out of date due to some issues with building the port without any BOOTSTRAP option.
+Thanks to the help of other developers and contributors (a special thank to Mark Millard), I noticed that according to the official documentation link:https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html[building GCC without bootstrap requires a working GCC binary] and thus I switched package:lang/gcc14-devel[] to require that a BOOTSTRAP option is set.
+However it has later been stated that bootstraping GCC using clang and libc++ is link:https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111632[officially supported].
+But it has also been stated that this is not a high priority.
+
+At the moment package:lang/gcc14-devel[] is the only GCC port requiring a BOOTSTRAP option to be set.
+The plan is to have all GCC ports for versions greater or equal than 14 (i.e. future GCC ports) to require such an option: even if building without bootstrap is more or less officially supported, being low priority for upstream it increases the burden of maintaining GCC ports for low results.
+In case lower versions start to have issues building without bootstrap, I am going to require bootstrap for those as well.