Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:06:46 +0100 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com> Cc: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>, Christoph Mallon <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler? Message-ID: <20090109110646.GB12123@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <2889C93967084361AF31BC85B2D52D1D@PegaPegII> References: <49668763.8020705@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <49672189.5060109@gmx.de> <2889C93967084361AF31BC85B2D52D1D@PegaPegII>
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> Hi Current, > > I personally dont mind GCC being of a older version for the world and > kernel compiles, however, I do wish that a newer version of binutils were > used. > > I can compile GCC from the ports or download the sources and compile it > there, but it seems to get really icky if you have two versions of binutils > installed. The benifits of having the newer binutils is that I can compile > using SSE4.1 which bomb out now due to the older "as" not knowing the new > opcodes. > > I believe there are licenscing issues with using the newer binutils, but > what they are I have no idea. I am sure the last GPLv2 is MUCH newer than what we have now :)
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