Re: Status of debian-amd64 after sarge release
On 04-Nov-16 18:31, Jan Houstek wrote:
> Well, what exactly makes gcc-3.4 such a must? I'm trying to decide which
> debian port to use for production (your comming gcc-3.4 sarge or the
> already existent gcc-3.3 sarge).
gcc-3.4 is definitively not a 'must'. gcc-3.3 will work in most cases
and the pure64 archive, which uses a mixture of gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4,
is much closer to the official sarge archive than the gcc-3.4 archive.
The gcc-3.4 archive needs more than 250 extra patches to correct
the remaining gcc-3.4 incompatibilities of the official sources.
Those patches are mostly minor patches which change only a few
lines of code, but they are deviations from the official sources
nonetheless.
However, there is a C++ ABI change from gcc-3.3 to gcc-3.4. When
gcc-3.4 is used right from the beginning on amd64, the complicated
ABI transition problems can be avoided. Sooner or later Debian will
switch to gcc-3.4 (or gcc-4.0).
Regards
Andreas Jochens
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