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Re: 3.3 PATCH: Add PNI support
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:59:57 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: 3.3 PATCH: Add PNI support
- References: <3FA2F19F.2050208@twcny.rr.com> <20031101000339.GA7367@lucon.org>
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, H. J. Lu wrote:
>> Use 3.4. It's in stage 3 (bug fixes only) and is stabilizing quickly
> You must be kidding. I won't recommend 3.4 for anything related to
> production.
I agree.
> The current situation is gcc 3.3 is just a baseline. People have to
> apply patches on top of it to get a stable and usable compiler.
Indeed. It's kind of sub-optimal that Red Hat, SUSE and probably several
others including Debian, the BSDs and dozens of other distributinos need
the very same patch (or a variation thereof) while stock GCC is not
sufficiently usable.
(This is a general observation, not focusing on this very patch.)
Gerald