GCC 4.2.0 RC3 Available

[Richard Guenther]

On 5/5/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> >> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>> GCC 4.2.0 RC3 is now available from:
> >>>
> >>>   ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/prerelease-4.2.0-20070501
> >>>
> >>> This build now contains the fixes for the Ada build problem present in RC2.
> >>>
> >>> At this point, I have no plans for an RC4.  However, I am reviewing the
> >>> various open issues, and available patches, so I might change my mind
> >>> about that.
> >
> > Another problem is that --enable-checking hasn't been set to 'release',
> > so the stage1 binary is too big to run on my ARM systems (and the
> > compiler will be unnecessarily slower than it needs to be).
>
> That's a serious issue.  But, I'm confused: gcc/DEV-PHASE on the branch
> is set to "prerelease", and, in the auto-host.h file from the build that
> gets done as part of the prerelease tarball-building script, I see:
>
> /* Define if you want the garbage collector to do object poisoning and
> other
>    memory allocation checks. This is quite expensive. */
> #ifndef USED_FOR_TARGET
> /* #undef ENABLE_GC_CHECKING */
> #endif
>
> which looks like GC-checking has indeed been turned off, which is
> consistent with gcc/configure.ac detecting that we're in release mode.
>
> Are you sure that we're not building with release-checking only?

stage1 is always built with checking enabled.

Richard.