GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4

[Jack Lloyd]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:

> Linux can be rather chaotic, even with Linus' influence. True, he controls
> the definitive distribution -- but there are many side branches and unique
> versions for each distro. Remember the fracas over the Linux VM? Is it
> possible that FSF gcc should define a core gcc, with possible branches for
> vendor specific variants?

>From what I've seen of the various GCC branches, it doesn't seem so modular
as to really allow that kind of thing. With the local kernel variants, it
mostly seems like "let's include feature X" (ext3, zero copy NFS, whatever)
before Linus decides that he wants it in his tree. Even with the 2 or 3 VMs
that were running around in 2.4, most of the changes were very
pick-one-VM-or-the-other, and didn't affect the majority of the tree
(drivers, bootstrap process, etc). I can't imagine what exactly a core gcc
would look like; what features would it include or not include as compared
to a standard FSF release?

As you can tell from my wishy-washy language, I don't really know what I'm
talking about. :)

-Jack