Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:46:42 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Farooq Mela <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GCC Upgrade? Message-ID: <20010317104642.Y29888@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3AB310DF.A43A8BC@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us>; from fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:23:11PM -0800 References: <3AB310DF.A43A8BC@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us>
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* Farooq Mela <fmela0@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> [010316 23:21] wrote: > Howdy, > > GCC 2.95.3 was just released. I did notice that there are some bug fixes > in the optimizer, and some various other fixes etc. Considering the > recent discussion about incorrect code generation due to -O2 and above, > are there any plans to import this new release into the FreeBSD source > tree? What is the "plan" for the future, is the compiler going to be > upgraded when GCC gets to 3.0 (depending of course on its stability)? Or > are we just going to "play it by ear"? You're too optimistic. _Every_ gcc release is supposed to "fix some bugs in the optimizer". David will sync our compiler with the latest version when he feels that it's ready for FreeBSD. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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