From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 1 15:24: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC9737B400; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B25343E7B; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g81MNwcV036608; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g81MNwF9036607; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:23:58 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: current@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2 in progress Message-ID: <20020901222358.GA36579@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , current@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org References: <20020901173956.7b23a223.ak03@gte.com> <20020901144645.A16984-100000@wonky.feral.com> <20020901215626.GA36167@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020901220034.GC2072@procyon.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020901220034.GC2072@procyon.firepipe.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 03:00:34PM -0700, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 02:56:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > This update has been *DEMANDED* in both -current and -ports for months now. > > Yes, GCC 3.1 prerelease bites, big time, k thx. Better to fix > it now than later, when people will actually expect it to work. > > I also dislike the apparent general policy of using prereleases > for our compiler in FreeBSD. This is the same as using RELENG_4_6 (ie, 4.6-SECURE) in something. We get bug fixes (that must work on *all* supported GCC arches). The risk is _well_ mitigated. Why is everyone second guessing Kan on this import??? It will be a wonder if we get another import done by him. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message