From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 15:08:50 2003 Return-Path: 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 BF07437B408 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E18543F75 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:08:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510562A7EA; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:08:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Alexander Kabaev In-Reply-To: <20030709170956.621dc901.ak03@gte.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:08:50 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030709220850.510562A7EA@canning.wemm.org> cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The upcoming GCC 3.3+ upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 22:08:51 -0000 Alexander Kabaev wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Since GCC 3.2.x branch is closed in FSF repository and no further > releases are planned off the 3.2 branch, it was decided that switching > to a more recent and actively maintained GCC 3.3+ is necessary. The > system compiler upgrade is in 5.2 TODO list. > > GCC 3.3+ will be a system compiler throughout RELENG_5 lifetime. Yippee! Bring it on! :-) Cheers, -Peter (Who suffers from gcc-3.2 ICE's on amd64 periodically) -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5