Re: GCC 3.x?
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:18:10AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:55:29AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > > What are your plans regarding a migration to gcc-3.x?
> >
> > As far as I know, the plan is to start compiling i386 packages with it
> > after woody. It's not too difficult for C, but using g++-3.0 for all our
> > C++ packages involves an ABI change and so may be a complicated
> > transition.
>
> ... not to mention that GCC 3.1, which will be out about the same time
> as woody, is both:
> - another ABI change, while they bugfix the documented 3.0 ABI
> - astoundingly better
>
> I suspect we will skip 3.0 entirely.
It isn't formally accepted yet (mostly pending time available to organize
things, post-woody), but the NetBSD port, at least, will likely be using
3.1 as the default compiler, because nothing prior to that really supports
it properly (at least, not in ELF mode).
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