On 21/02/2010 21:53, Steven Bosscher wrote:

> Yes, of course -- but what is the advantage of using the latest GCC
> for such an older processor? 

  Tree-SSA?  LTO?  Fixed bugs?  New languages?  Etc?  I can see plenty of good
reasons for it.

> The newer compilers usually add nothing much more than support for the
> newer processors and their new instruction sets, 

  That doesn't sound like any GCC that I'm familiar with!

    cheers,
      DaveK

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