Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:22:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: geoff@sea-incorporated.com, pdseniura@techie.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about the gcc 3.4.x problems Message-ID: <200407301222.i6UCMVr13060@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <20040729175604.GA95628@caribbean.sea-incorporated.com>
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"Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@sea-incorporated.com> > > GCC-3.4 is in the tree; rejoice and be glad. GCC-3.5 is not even an > issue. Just because Apple is using it doesn't mean everybody should. > Apple has the resources to adopt gcc prereleases early, and thoroughly > test and fix all the problems that they will undoubtedly find. > On a side note - I'm not sure Apple has/had those resources. We reported a bug in their gcc (it wouldn't compile some of our sources, complaining of an internal error) in OS X 10.1. (A pre-release of GCC 3.2.x, I think.) The problem was fixed, about a year later, when the latest OS X was released... so, at last, our products are available on a mac. We never received a fix and had to buy the new release to get the new versions. Many e-mails went to Apple asking about the status of the problem, pointing to where the fix needed to be made, etc... but - nothing _ever_ came back from Apple... and then, a couple of days before the latest release, the bug was simply closed. So - it seems, they didn't, in our case, have the resources to test and correct problems. I have the opinion they simply jump on the latest... this is admittedly anecdotal. And, might simply be the exception that proves the rule :-) - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com
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