From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 10:21:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE871525B for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:21:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA49076; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:21:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:21:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199903051821.KAA49076@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andreas Klemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chuck Robey , "David O'Brien" , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc References: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990305183359.A37263@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:49:57PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: :> > Please keep in mind that if, in our haste, we import a compiler that :> > puts instability into FreeBSD, then we've drunk poison. The feature :> :> A legit concern, but also realize that all of us are talking about :> 4.0 here - the new compiler would be an issue we'd have up to a full :> year on before the product it's in goes mainstream. If that's not enough :> time to work out the compiler issues after switching, I can't imagine :> when we WILL have a better time to try and do this then. Progress :> entails some pain, and if we're unwilling to suffer any at all then :> progress ceases entirely. : :Agreed. : :-- :Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas : What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? : http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html : "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' : I like idea of being able to choose between two different compilers on the fly -- as in with a kernel config option or a make.conf option. I don't think we can 'replace' gcc in 4.x. It will screw up too many people trying to track down bugs, including me. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message