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Date:      Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:58:25 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: GCC 4.0 [Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast]
Message-ID:  <20050425185825.GB43216@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050425185349.GD25681@voodoo.oberon.net>
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:53:49PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:20:33AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:43:00PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:05:14AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > > > Well, I'd caution against jumping into GCC 4.0 just because of the
> > > > claims of 25% speed improvement.  That's about the single worst rea=
son
> > > > to do it.  But if you're interested in moving the technology forwar=
d,
> > > > I'd happily encourage you.  The changed language constructs are the=
 big
> > > > problem (extern struct foo bar[]; is no longer valid) since you not=
 only
> > > > need to sweep the FreeBSD tree for them, you also need to sweep the
> > > > ports tree.  I have mixed feeling on the value of GCC making sloppy
> > > > language extentions available for years and then suddenly revoking =
them,
> > > > and I know others that have been affected by 4.0 aren't terribly ha=
ppy
> > > > either.
> > >=20
> > > Well. if we're going to import it, it should be tested on pointyhat
> > > first.  IIRC Kris already run tests for some pre 4.0 versions.
> >=20
> > No, only for 3.4.4, which is going to be imported after I finish
> > testing the latest patchset from kan.
>=20
> Erm, is 3.4.4 already released, I couldn't find it on their page:
>=20
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html

It's probably a snapshot then.  See the patchset in
www.freebsd.org/~kan

Kris

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