Stability of the gcc4 archive
On 05-May-07 14:28, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> That is exatly what is to be expected to happen. Using gcc-4.0 is
> highly experimental. It did and will break all over the place all the
> time for a good while to come. It is there to find and fix those
> problems before Debian itself decides to switch over.
Of course some things may break and will break with gcc-4.0.
But actually it is not really that bad. I am running the gcc4
archive on four machines since a few month now without major
problems.
Besides xfree86, I know only two packages that need a small workaround
for a miscompilation with gcc-4.0.
Most of the previous problems were already fixed before gcc-4.0 was
officially released.
Nonetheless, the gcc4 archive _is_ experimental, and it is not
recommended to use it for any serious purposes.
Regards
Andreas Jochens
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