Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

[ With my GNU Fortran maintainer hat on, but also a little bit as
  member of the SC ... ]

Geoff Keating wrote:

Thanks for discussing this in the open.

> So, one plan being considered is that we take a compiler out of the
> Red Hat internal tree (based sometime after 3.0), make a release, and
> ship that as the default compiler.  Then if we can make the kernel
> work with this compiler, we have one compiler, which we can fully
> support.  We didn't have time to do either of these for RHL 7, but we
> do for RHL 8.

It would have my preference (strongly) if Red Hat based its system
compiler on GCC-3.0.x (whatever x is released at the moment the decision
has to be made) + bug fixes (which would return in the GCC release
branch).

However, ISTR that gcc-2.96-rh contained the subreg byte patch, which
wasn't deemed stable enough for the 3.0 release branch.

How would Red Hat want to deal with that (David Miller, Jakub Jelinek
?).

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