Bug#102193: gcc-3.0: compiled code with gcc 3.0 is slow and big

[Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:51:40AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Phil Edwards writes:
> > The library 3.0.95 snapshot is the 3.1 sources as of a few weeks ago,
> > with the exception-handling bits tweaked to work with GCC 3.0.
> 
> assume we want to get 3.0.95 into the Debian woody release, we have to
[do a whole boatload of work]

That sounds ugly.

We plan on rolling a 3.0.96, a 3.0.97, etc, for people interesting in
cutting-edge C++ library work.  We hope for wider testing that way before
the 3.1 release.  If you put 3.0.95 into woody, then you'd be looking at
having to keep all those snapshots updated as well.

I know Debian doesn't make release-date predictions, but GCC 3.1 (with the
accompanying libstdc++) will be out in about 4 months plus a week or two.
After that point the libstdc++ ABI should be stable.


Phil

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