From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 03:10:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5277A1065672 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:10:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CE08FC0A for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so1741766bwz.13 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:10:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=FZFgCKPfoXmHjYfRogUmg/i/QOj9OHMyaKB8r3hDpNs=; b=OcFi2bI8WrtavlU3UyDQe0EzmVlH0Gztcsowx9Zad0R3fLZ4JdpNHfuK/9z7tmbpJW p51XcFBHWqjuOF7aOoJfKxiFCYTiVJ4mOs9XsGfjHM91VDFnjKkPM7q5IAJQ5ocYgKZB AiWxkFEslk//uaQKE42wRzX3VUewY2qnmcAIk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=aicY2h1myP3ozEkwHFKgZPn5S+qWU+I326ODABEU2HkJtTYMo6hOWzGOucDQKPvM33 iHkOgJp/7P55f5QXh832tCYK8MwY6LoUtyZwQRvUJaUwOtI7E/e7s/rG60qfwhQ4tvY9 3oF0tO6XGPtBy1Tvs2N9bg89/qsDGA3DBOWTA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.83.88 with SMTP id e24mr1815094bkl.78.1301541044474; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.118.200 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:10:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:10:44 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Gary Dunn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: gcc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:10:46 -0000 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. > The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0 dated 19 Mar 2011. > Probably never, as GPL 3 code isn't allowed in the base system. There have been some optimizations backported to gcc in CURRENT that add in stuff like newer instruction sets I believe. The base system compiler is moving towards clang/llvm and it's now possible to run a clang kernel/world on CURRENT. Efforts are underway to change the ports system to allow for a more pluggable compiler eg clang/gcc44/gcc45/gcc46. -- Adam Vande More