Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

[ Disclaimer: I *am* speaking for DBAI. :-) ]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Going to GCC 3.0 is IMO the right way.

...though be prepared to receive extremely bad and annoyed feedback
from those of your customers doing heavy duty C++ development.

Here at DBAI, for example, we simply cannot use GCC 3.0 because it's
an order of magnitude slower while generating larger and also slower
binaries.  I don't know, though, what this means for KDE and other
code you need to compile as part of your GNU/Linux distribution.

Though, if Red Hat could contribute developer time to address this kind of
problems on the GCC 3.0-branch, that would make a lot of sense I guess,
for there *are* significant improvements in the C++ frontend per se which
will be strongly appreciated by many customers.

> I personally would appreciate - and support - a commitment from some
> of the Linux distributors on the next GCC version they're using and on
> compatibility to a *released* GCC version.

Definitely. Having strong compatibility among different GNU/Linux
distributions makes a lot of sense, for *all* affected parties.

> IMO it would even make sense to discuss a "common Linux GCC" version.

Well, why can't this be FSF GCC?  Specifically, the current release
branch?

Gerald
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