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