> casper....@sun.com wrote:
>>> Glenn Lagasse wrote:
>>>> I can't speak definitively about this, but my best guess is that
>>>> SUNWgcc
>>>> is still 3.4.3 because the ON consolidation hasn't qualified later
>>>> builds of GCC for building ON.  And so, the supported method for
>>>> compiling code using GCC in ON is to use 3.4.3 until such time as
>>>> someone does the work to update ON to build using later versions.
>>>> Which
>>>> I'd imagine will have to happen at some point.
>>>>
>>> You can at least compile ON with gcc 4.x now, though that's a recent
>>> development. See CR 6795209.
>>
>> I'm sure this is really "it compiles and it seems to run"?  Or was a gcc
>> 4.4 compiled ON send to PIT?
>>
>> Casper
>>
>
> All I claim is that the ON code compiles cleanly. I'm not certain that
> the resulting kernel will even boot.
>
> This putback was a collection of minor syntax fixes for errors reported
> by gcc 4.x but not 3.x.
>

I have a snv_115 machine to test that. I'm fine if it BFU's into a warm
brick but of course, I'd hope for better.

Dennis


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