Re: gcc4 on pure64/gcc-3.4 ?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andrei Mikhailovsky <andrei@arhont.com> writes:

> Hello debianers,
>
> With the recent release of gcc 4.0 into a stable branch, how likely is
> to see the gcc-4 in the pure64 branch? I've heard from various sources
> that the gcc-4 branch has a better optimisation for the x86-64 platform.
> Is this true? If so, does it worth changing to the debian-gcc3.4 branch,
> which has the gcc-4 packages.
>
> Many thanks for your thoughts,
>
> --
> Andrei

0 chance.

Debian will release sarge with gcc-3.3 and that means sid will stay
that way too. gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0 need a major transition due to C and
C++ incompatibilites.

MfG
        Goswin