Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:48 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 using GCC 4? Message-ID: <499c70c0705140110h447f469cuf2243cf5d9e3835a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46473A44.7050408@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <46459240.8070403@paradise.net.nz> <20070512175214.GA22914@xor.obsecurity.org> <46470288.8040708@delphij.net> <20070513103941.7f603598@kan.dnsalias.net> <46472E5C.1060703@delphij.net> <46473A44.7050408@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On 5/13/07, O. Hartmann <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > LI Xin wrote: > > Alexander Kabaev wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:20:24 +0800 > >> LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Will we be using 4.1.x series or 4.2.x series for 7.0-RELEASE? Just > >>> curious :-) > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> -- > >>> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ > >>> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! > >>> > >>> > >> 4.2.0. This is the first compiler version in GCC history to actually > >> shrink compiled boot2 code and that alone gave it many points in 4.1 > >> vs. 4.2 shootout. There are other advantages as well. 4.2 can build > >> unpatched firefox and have it working, while 4.1 builds binary with > >> broken relocations, etc. > >> > > > > Wow, that's great, thanks for the work! > > > > Cheers, > > > A while ago a discussion herein was triggered about this subject and as > I remember myself, the decission was made in favor of gcc 4.1. Watching > Linux/Gentoo Forums for a while I was reading many suggestions not using > gcc 4.1.1 as it is standard in newest branches/distributions, because of > several serious misbehaviours/generating broken code. > > We will see > Oliver A friend of mine who is a dev in Fedora said they wont go for GCC 4.1 since it brakes many things, and would go for GCC 4.2.x instead. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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