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Date:      Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:39:56 -0400
From:      Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
To:        <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2 in progress
Message-ID:  <20020901173956.7b23a223.ak03@gte.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020901143351.A16984-100000@wonky.feral.com>
References:  <20020901161547.57cba7e2.ak03@gte.com> <20020901143351.A16984-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:34:12 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

> So, what is it about gcc 3.2 that's so important, considering that we
> wanted to do a real 5.0 release within 2 months?

Some well known problem present in our current GCC snapshot appear to be
fixed in 3.2.

GCC 3.2 is using vendor-independent C++ ABI. Assuming they got it right
this time, this will allow us to upgrade to 3.3 more painlessly later.

People who were asking for an upgrade got what they deserved :)

-- 
Alexander Kabaev

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