Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:37:11 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-Current and gcc 4.x Message-ID: <20050619043711.GB46516@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050618162922.GE55448@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de> <20050618162922.GE55448@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:29:23AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:46:47PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > As I see in the sources, FreeBSD 6.0-Current is still based on gcc > > 3.4.4. I think due to code freezing this version will be the platform > > compiler when 6.0-RELEASE comes out. Are there any plans using a more > > recent version of gcc, like 4.0 or 4.1? On some lists I read something > > about better support of the features of AMD64/EM64T architectures, > > especially SSE3. > > It's David O'Brien and Kan's call, but I would recommend > against the use of gcc 4.0.0. GCC is in the process of > (early) release of 4.0.1 due to serious bugs affecting > compilation of C++ and KDE. One definately would want to wait for a point release after a major GCC version bump. Same for anyone basing product on FreeBSD. :-) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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