From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 1 14:53:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C176B37B400; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:53:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2262A43E6A; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:53:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g81LrAv10693; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:53:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:51:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Alexander Kabaev , , Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2 in progress In-Reply-To: <20020901215028.GA36103@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: <20020901145109.K16984-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 02:34:12PM -0700, Matthew Jacob 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? > > This is really 3.1.1 -- so it is a minor point release. 3.2 fixes a bug > that changes the API so it couldn't be fixed in 3.1.1. Otherwise they > are the same compilers. > > That said, we don't want to be stuck with a stale compiler for all of > 5.x. I highly recomend we use 3.3 in our 5.0-R. > All that's good, but is this on the roadmap of RE && core so that adequate destabilization time is accounted for? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message