gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?
Roman Divacky
rdivacky at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 9 03:07:09 PST 2009
> Hi Current,
>
> I personally dont mind GCC being of a older version for the world and
> kernel compiles, however, I do wish that a newer version of binutils were
> used.
>
> I can compile GCC from the ports or download the sources and compile it
> there, but it seems to get really icky if you have two versions of binutils
> installed. The benifits of having the newer binutils is that I can compile
> using SSE4.1 which bomb out now due to the older "as" not knowing the new
> opcodes.
>
> I believe there are licenscing issues with using the newer binutils, but
> what they are I have no idea.
I am sure the last GPLv2 is MUCH newer than what we have now :)
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