From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 12:34:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (port-4-4.adsl.one.net [216.2.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4977E14ED5; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:34:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA40893; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:37:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:37:03 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Coleman Kane , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable? Message-ID: <20000110153703.A19250@evil.2y.net> References: <20000109214046.7913BA54DB@netcom1.netcom.com> <20000110004054.A1181@evil.2y.net> <20000110094834.D94525@relay.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000110094834.D94525@relay.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:49:21PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, GCC 2.95.x can be patched for pentium, ppro, and k6 optimization to make your programs run faster and more efficiently. If you could compile the base system with it, you would glean more performance from the box. If you go to http://www.goof.com/pcg/ you can see what I'm talking about, there is also a port in /usr/ports/lang/pgcc. --cokane David O'Brien had the audacity to say: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 12:40:54AM -0500, Coleman Kane wrote: > > Obviously, you have never tried to make world with the new egcs, it is almost > > WHY do you need to make world with GCC 2.95.2? Gcc 2.7.2 acutally > produces smaller code. For some things even faster code. What is so > glammorous about a Gcc 2.95 built world and kernel? > > Use the base compiler to compile the product and install the `egcs' port > for your own code. The big short falling with Gcc 2.7.2 is a total piece > of crap C++ compiler. Since the only thing written in C++ in /usr/src/ > is groff (and very old style C++), who cares. > > > impossible since there are many violations of ANSI C and C++ in the code right > > now. The kernel does, however, properly compile (minus some ext2fs crap). > > Send patches then, if you are a programmer. > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > [maintainer of /usr/src/contrib/gcc, `gcc-devel', `egcs', `pgcc'] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message