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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:28:54 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Deepankar Das <ddas@panasas.com>
Cc:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building FreeBSD 4.6 with GCC 3.2
Message-ID:  <20021016022854.GB91641@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DAC8CDF.7060809@panasas.com>
References:  <3C23AF6E.90202@ns.aus.com> <20011221164429.U48837@elvis.mu.org> <3DAC84D3.5010103@panasas.com> <200210151734.39677.culverk@yumyumyum.org> <3DAC8CDF.7060809@panasas.com>

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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:47:11PM -0700, Deepankar Das wrote:
> We tried a few experiments with GCC 3.2 and parts of our source
> code and found performance improvements. We want to see if there
> are any similar improvements to the FreeBSD OS if we use GCC 3.2.
> I understand that it is not a simple task to just swap compilers
> to build the kernel. Would be very interested to know what others
> have experienced.

If you're willing to do the work yourself, FreeBSD 5.0-current uses
gcc 3.x, so you could look at what changed were made to support it
when it was first imported.

Kris

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