Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:05:14AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > >>Well, I'd caution against jumping into GCC 4.0 just because of the >>claims of 25% speed improvement. That's about the single worst reason >>to do it. But if you're interested in moving the technology forward, >>I'd happily encourage you. The changed language constructs are the big >>problem (extern struct foo bar[]; is no longer valid) since you not only >>need to sweep the FreeBSD tree for them, you also need to sweep the >>ports tree. I have mixed feeling on the value of GCC making sloppy >>language extentions available for years and then suddenly revoking them, >>and I know others that have been affected by 4.0 aren't terribly happy >>either. > > > Well. if we're going to import it, it should be tested on pointyhat > first. IIRC Kris already run tests for some pre 4.0 versions. > > -Kirill Yes, that is a step, one of many, in porting a new compiler. So, if people want it done, there needs to be less hand-waving and more typing. ScottReceived on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 12:49:53 UTC
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