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Re: [gpc] Re: GCC integration?

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Thorsten Glaser <tg at 66h dot 42h dot de>, gpc at gnu dot de
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:13:19 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: [gpc] Re: GCC integration?
References: <E1Cf7Qj-0002Jx-00@hera.math.uni.wroc.pl><Pine.BSO.4.61L.0412170656290.14981@odem.66h.42h.de> <200412171047.18328.stevenb@suse.de>

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

References:
- [gpc] Re: GCC integration?
  - From: Thorsten Glaser
- Re: [gpc] Re: GCC integration?
  - From: Steven Bosscher

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