From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 14 08:10:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A299116A405 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D6213C469 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 08:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d23so381140and for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 01:10:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WTzSpus/+J841I6oAY2rN9ZQM70QbADsoEohi/AQMHnd7lPoo42Us9loRQaXXcmHtUXqOxq/iHT0yE1t+ZYmOzF8Dp3Zo0AHmyyLuVHMUQL8tFtK77cjkTWRAISebZny8XVujUZFJOHAULrnkrE8T9fDxYSfV4XlH1gTmao4OoQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qx+1MkOjBUq6bjkkYQf5MMQBUEwYqvWCcsknH0ZKegu0yEMzNJ6bU79Wqt/rCmNDJySQYUahkinT1iMWYQPIl8e9NHQ8+8rg31Hq7w2Ks0fERYq1agX++QCbhrveaVATRYL7g9jymLKZ5Jfsn7PQjseVcEGJdLvN/B+nBwlk8Tg= Received: by 10.100.142.12 with SMTP id p12mr4235578and.1179130248101; Mon, 14 May 2007 01:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.9.14 with HTTP; Mon, 14 May 2007 01:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <499c70c0705140110h447f469cuf2243cf5d9e3835a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10:48 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "O. Hartmann" In-Reply-To: <46473A44.7050408@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, LI Xin Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 using GCC 4? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:10:49 -0000 On 5/13/07, O. Hartmann wrote: > LI Xin wrote: > > Alexander Kabaev wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:20:24 +0800 > >> LI Xin wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Will we be using 4.1.x series or 4.2.x series for 7.0-RELEASE? Just > >>> curious :-) > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> -- > >>> Xin LI 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/