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Date:      Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:51:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>, <current@FreeBSD.org>, <developers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2 in progress
Message-ID:  <20020901145109.K16984-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020901215028.GA36103@dragon.nuxi.com>

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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?



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