From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 16:14:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AFA16A400 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 16:14:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED9D13C459 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 16:14:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.66) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1HnGim-000809-Tk>; Sun, 13 May 2007 18:14:56 +0200 Received: from e178017242.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.17.242] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.66) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1HnGim-00030x-R7>; Sun, 13 May 2007 18:14:56 +0200 Message-ID: <46473A44.7050408@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 18:18:12 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LI Xin References: <46459240.8070403@paradise.net.nz> <20070512175214.GA22914@xor.obsecurity.org> <46470288.8040708@delphij.net> <20070513103941.7f603598@kan.dnsalias.net> <46472E5C.1060703@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <46472E5C.1060703@delphij.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 85.178.17.242 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:27:06 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 using GCC 4? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:14:59 -0000 LI Xin wrote: > Alexander Kabaev wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:20:24 +0800 >> LI Xin wrote: >> >> >>> Will we be using 4.1.x series or 4.2.x series for 7.0-RELEASE? Just >>> curious :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -- >>> Xin LI 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