Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:47:03 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-Current and gcc 4.x Message-ID: <42B417C7.80904@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de> References: <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
O. Hartmann wrote: > Hi. > 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. > > Thanks. > Oliver No, it's far too late to consider switching to gcc 4.0 for FreeBSD 6.x. Once we switch, there will likely be a massive amount of work to do in the ports tree. Given all the disruptions in the past 3 years over gcc 3.x, I think it would be nice to take a small break and not be on the bleeding edge of gcc. Scott
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42B417C7.80904>