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Is the gcc-3_3-branch creation still on target?
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:09:15 -0700
- Subject: Is the gcc-3_3-branch creation still on target?
- Organization: The NUXI BSD Group
- Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
Are things still on schedule to branch mainline, creating the
gcc-3_3-branch, on 15-Oct-2002?
FreeBSD 5.0 will use some form of GCC 3.3 snapshot. I know this isn't
desired by the GCC Steering Committee to have another "gcc 2.96", but
FreeBSD has little choice. It ICE's on many popular packages, X11 as
just one example. It has serious optimization bugs for modern x86
processors, for which the PR's aren't getting fixed. It has regressions
from 2.95 that aren't getting fixed. All in all, GCC 3.2 is poo. There
needs to be a balance between adding new features, re-abstracting the
code, etc; and basic usability. So far the 3.x series has leaned too far
to the former. GCC 3.1.1 was the most stable of any of the 3.x
compilers, but it has a broken C++ ABI and is EOL'ed by the GCC
developers, which makes it a poor choice to base an OS on.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)