[NCLUG] hey all you gcc-philes

Mike Loseke mike at verinet.com
Tue Mar 5 11:04:07 MST 2002


Thus spake Matthew Wilcox:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:59:30AM -0700, Mike Loseke wrote:
> > 
> >  Of the gcc3 releases, which is considered okey-dokey? Is gcc-3.0.4 cool
> > and considered the go ahead?
> 
> As always, `It Depends'.  I don't believe there are major regressions
> versus 2.95.x, but there are some `interesting' issues, particularly
> around c++.  I don't believe it's recommended for compiling the kernel
> with on x86 yet, for another example.  Caveat compilor...
> 
> Having said that, we've built 90% of debian with gcc 3.0 on PA, so it
> clearly works for some packages :-)  Also, 3.0.4 is extremely likely to
> be the last release in the 3.0 stream, since 3.1 has branched and all
> effort will now go towards stabilising that.

 Cool, exactly what I was looking for. :-) Thanks!

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