> 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), everyone appears to be aiming > for GCC4 for the next major release. Not sure what is your sampling base, but the latest Mandrake is 3.4-based for example. -- Eric Botcazou