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Re: [gpc] Re: GCC integration?
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> For GCC 3.3 at least this is not true. GCC 3.3 is really the first of
> the GCC3 series that received wide acceptance.
Both Red Hat and SUSE based their previous enterprise distributions
on 3.2.
> I don't know why you think your idea is great for OS vendors. As far
> as I can tell they're pretty happy with GCC 3.3 (only Fedora Core 3 is
> based on GCC 3.4, as far as I can tell)
FreeBSD 5.x is using GCC 3.4...
> everyone appears to be aiming for GCC4 for the next major release.
...but I guess FreeBSD 6.x will be based on GCC 4.x.
> If any of the large vendors would have been interested in a new GCC3
> based release, they would have asked by now.
I fully agree with that. Now is not the time to ask for GCC 3.5.
Gerald