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Re: GCC 4.3 release schedule
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:20:02PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com> [2007-10-26 17:51]:
> > Yes. I think Ubuntu is on track for 4.3 as well, most likely Debian, too.
>
> I've been testing 4.3 on a number of architectures Debian supports and
> filings bugs. There are still many that haven't been resolved yet.
> Of course, gcc 4.3 also introduces build failures in about 550
> packages (mostly due to the C++ header inclusion clean-up) and these
> need to be fixed too. However, Debian's next release is further away
> than SUSE's and Fedora's so there should be enough time to fix these
> issues.
You might want to hold off on investing the work in fixing those 550
packages, because I think it's premature to consider the header "cleanup"
final.
Can you estimate how many of the broken packages use <ext/hash_set> or
<ext/hash_map>?