From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 17 10:46:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C45737B718 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2HIkgh27096; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:46:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:46:42 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Farooq Mela Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GCC Upgrade? Message-ID: <20010317104642.Y29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3AB310DF.A43A8BC@sm.socccd.cc.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Farooq Mela [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