On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:53:49PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:20:33AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:43:00PM +0200, 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 problem (extern struct foo bar[]; is no longer valid) since you not only 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. > > > > No, only for 3.4.4, which is going to be imported after I finish > > testing the latest patchset from kan. > > Erm, is 3.4.4 already released, I couldn't find it on their page: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html It's probably a snapshot then. See the patchset in www.freebsd.org/~kan Kris
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