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Cc: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org,
	Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become
 standard compiler?)
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Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
> 	Would this approach get around the need to have 4.3 installed as a BSD 
> default? 

Well, this is workaround not a solution. Sooner or later FreeBSD will 
hit some principal limitation of the current compiler, like for example 
it was in the old days of gcc 2.xx, when FreeBSD had stuck with version 
that was outdated by few years resulting in inability to use any more or 
less modern C++ code with the system compiler. Existing processors 
develop all the time (SSE 4.2 for example) and the new architectures 
emerge (Cell for example), so that it's just matter of time when it 
happens again.

-Maxim