Remove support for GCC 4.7.

This reverts https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/24924. As noted
there, GCC 4.7 support ends 2018-03-23, which has passed. GCC 4.8.0 was
released 2013-03-22, so we are now past the five year mark, matching
Abseil's guidelines.

Abseil also now explicitly lists supported compilers and explicitly
requires GCC 4.8+. https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/platforms/platforms

gRPC also now requires 4.8 per
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/10036#issuecomment-290248204

Update-Note: On the off chance someone was using GCC 4.7, which only
started working in January, that'll no longer work.

Change-Id: Ie017822e903f98293e7b5e9bda10f104f17be7b3
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/32564
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Adam Langley <agl@google.com>
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README.md

BoringSSL

BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.

BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.

Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.

There are other files in this directory which might be helpful: