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From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
	Alp Atici <aa878@columbia.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.x
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Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> writes:
> In the last episode (Jan 19), Terry Lambert said:
> > Alp Atici wrote:
> > > Is gcc 3.x going to be the default compiler starting from FBSD 5.x
> > > series? Is the development on current branch compiled using gcc 3.0
> > > (or up)?
> > 
> > I think that the cut over will happen after the compiler
> > no longer core dumps on:
> > 
> > 	main()
> > 	{
> > 		int i;
> > 
> > 		i = foo();
> > 
> > 		switch( i) {
> > 		default:
> > 			printf( "hello, stupid compiler!\n");
> > 			break;
> > 		}
> > 	}
> > 
> > 	int
> > 	foo()
> > 	{
> > 		return( 6);
> > 	}
> 
> Doesn't core on me (gcc30+bounds-checking port, FreeBSD-current).  In
> fact, I've got USE_GCC30 in my make.conf and build all my ports with it
> (at least the ports that aren't broken and hardcode cc or gcc).

Interesting.  The sparc64 toolchain suffers from this problem, so a
number of files on the sparc64 p4 branch have custom versions.
Anyway, I'm told this problem has been fixed in 3.1, which is the
planned version of GCC for 5.0-RELEASE.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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