6.0-Current and gcc 4.x

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:46:47PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
> As I see in the sources, FreeBSD 6.0-Current is still based on gcc 
> 3.4.4. I think due to code freezing this version will be the platform 
> compiler when 6.0-RELEASE comes out. Are there any plans using a more 
> recent version of gcc, like 4.0 or 4.1? On some lists I read something 
> about better support of the features of AMD64/EM64T architectures, 
> especially SSE3.
> 

It's David O'Brien and Kan's call, but I would recommend
against the use of gcc 4.0.0.  GCC is in the process of
(early) release of 4.0.1 due to serious bugs affecting
compilation of C++ and KDE.

-- 
Steve