Re: GCC 4.0 [Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast]

From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:22:29 -0400
Andy Fawcett wrote:
> On Monday 25 April 2005 23:28, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
[ ... ]
>> I'm not saying that we should switch to it because of that, but I'm
>> just mentioning it as an interesting data point (assuming it is true!).
> 
> FYI, the KDE project just blacklisted gcc 4.0.0, because "it is known to 
> miscompile KDE. Please use a newer version, or if that is not yet available, 
> choose an older version."
> 
> No, I don't know what the exact problems are, but they are obviously severe 
> enough for KDE to say "no thanks" to 4.0.0. 

Note that the KDE project also says "no thanks" to organizing their software 
correctly enough that portupgrade works....

-- 
-Chuck
Received on Tue Apr 26 2005 - 18:22:51 UTC

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