From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 12:47:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E1E16A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:47:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF67243D1D for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:47:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.1.156] ([62.233.162.77]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5ICpIV3041537; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:51:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42B417C7.80904@samsco.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:47:03 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050615 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" References: <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-Current and gcc 4.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:47:22 -0000 O. Hartmann wrote: > Hi. > As I see in the sources, FreeBSD 6.0-Current is still based on gcc > 3.4.4. I think due to code freezing this version will be the platform > compiler when 6.0-RELEASE comes out. Are there any plans using a more > recent version of gcc, like 4.0 or 4.1? On some lists I read something > about better support of the features of AMD64/EM64T architectures, > especially SSE3. > > Thanks. > Oliver No, it's far too late to consider switching to gcc 4.0 for FreeBSD 6.x. Once we switch, there will likely be a massive amount of work to do in the ports tree. Given all the disruptions in the past 3 years over gcc 3.x, I think it would be nice to take a small break and not be on the bleeding edge of gcc. Scott