6.0-Current and gcc 4.x

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:29:23AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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.

One definately would want to wait for a point release after a major GCC
version bump.  Same for anyone basing product on FreeBSD. :-)

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)