On 5/13/07, O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > LI Xin wrote: > > Alexander Kabaev wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:20:24 +0800 > >> LI Xin <delphij_at_delphij.net> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Will we be using 4.1.x series or 4.2.x series for 7.0-RELEASE? Just > >>> curious :-) > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> -- > >>> Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ > >>> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! > >>> > >>> > >> 4.2.0. This is the first compiler version in GCC history to actually > >> shrink compiled boot2 code and that alone gave it many points in 4.1 > >> vs. 4.2 shootout. There are other advantages as well. 4.2 can build > >> unpatched firefox and have it working, while 4.1 builds binary with > >> broken relocations, etc. > >> > > > > Wow, that's great, thanks for the work! > > > > Cheers, > > > A while ago a discussion herein was triggered about this subject and as > I remember myself, the decission was made in favor of gcc 4.1. Watching > Linux/Gentoo Forums for a while I was reading many suggestions not using > gcc 4.1.1 as it is standard in newest branches/distributions, because of > several serious misbehaviours/generating broken code. > > We will see > Oliver A friend of mine who is a dev in Fedora said they wont go for GCC 4.1 since it brakes many things, and would go for GCC 4.2.x instead. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/Received on Mon May 14 2007 - 06:10:49 UTC
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