Gcc Problems??

[David Starner]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:34:45PM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > 2)  Is it safe to use it to recompile the 2.2 Linux kernel?
> 
> I haven't tried in a while, but in my experience, the 2.2 Linux kernel
> always crashed when compiled with gcc 2.95 (it would not
> boot). However, I'm not sure whose fault that is.

Debian compiles its kernels with gcc 2.95, and there hasn't been
any reported problems. I think 2.2.x (for sufficently low x) had
some problems, especially when compiled by 2.95.

> > 4) Is it living its last days?
> 
> Do you mean: Is the World coming to an End? I don't know :-)
> I really don't understand this question.

If the question is whether it's going to be replaced any
time soon, the answer is no. There's no indication that
GCC has fundamental problems that would require a rewrite
to fix. Even if there were, GCC is X-like, in that making
a decent replacement that's as powerful and as portable
is very hard. Remember, your replacement must run on dozens 
of types of Unix on several types of chips, and support most 
to all of GCC's extensions. This replacement must also support
C, Objective C, C++, Pascal, Fortran 77 and Ada to obsolete
GCC.

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