On 1/9/06, Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> wrote:
...
> I personally agree that we should stick with 3.4.5 for now, since
> it is a closed branch, stable in more ways than compilability.
> They are not going to radically change the behaviour of the
> compiler under our feet as is usually the case with a new release
> series. Note there are no significant changes for PPC in gcc 4.0
> *except* for the tree ssa improvements, so when 3.4.5 has been
> used to bring the system up to sniff, and if we want all those
> new features, we can move to it anyway and deal with all the
> problems it may entail, when there is less important work waiting
> to be done.
>
I just want to add my 2 shekkels to discussion - with gcc-4.0.0 I posted
on opensolaris.org I hit a stupid bug with forward structure declaration
(discussed recently on opensolaris-code). After speending a couple
of hours on it I gave up and built gcc from the sources distributed in
SUNWgccS package - it is essentially gcc-3.4.3 with Sun' fixes.
The bug is gone and I am happy again. It is with compiler genunix
was built yesterday.
In short - GCC4 - not now - we have a lot of work besides debugging
compiler.
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Regards,
Cyril
