Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 18:18:12 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 using GCC 4? Message-ID: <46473A44.7050408@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <46472E5C.1060703@delphij.net> References: <46459240.8070403@paradise.net.nz> <20070512175214.GA22914@xor.obsecurity.org> <46470288.8040708@delphij.net> <20070513103941.7f603598@kan.dnsalias.net> <46472E5C.1060703@delphij.net>
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LI Xin wrote: > Alexander Kabaev wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:20:24 +0800 >> LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: >> >> >>> Will we be using 4.1.x series or 4.2.x series for 7.0-RELEASE? Just >>> curious :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -- >>> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ >>> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! >>> >>> >> 4.2.0. This is the first compiler version in GCC history to actually >> shrink compiled boot2 code and that alone gave it many points in 4.1 >> vs. 4.2 shootout. There are other advantages as well. 4.2 can build >> unpatched firefox and have it working, while 4.1 builds binary with >> broken relocations, etc. >> > > Wow, that's great, thanks for the work! > > Cheers, > A while ago a discussion herein was triggered about this subject and as I remember myself, the decission was made in favor of gcc 4.1. Watching Linux/Gentoo Forums for a while I was reading many suggestions not using gcc 4.1.1 as it is standard in newest branches/distributions, because of several serious misbehaviours/generating broken code. We will see Oliver
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