On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:03:05AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 04:05:32AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
On 21.08.2010 14:56, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 19:33:12 +0200, Arthur Loiret wrote:
Now, to be clear, what nice things would gcc-4.5 bring to our users?
There is a complete list here [0], but those ones are, in my opinion,
very nice:
- The new link time optimiser.
- Improved C++0x support.
- Plugins support.
My understanding is that lto in 4.5 is not quite there yet. Not that
I've tried it or anything.
I don't share your understanding. I tried it for some builds.
Maybe it works on small things, but I heard it doesn't work very well
for stuff like mozilla. 4.6 is supposed to get better.
I'm certainly concerned about issues such as #593876 where the
stricter linking breaks existing code. I'm not sure about the
rationale for this extra strictness, but it does cause
unwanted breakage by breaking existing assumptions about
indirect linking.