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On 28 May 2013, at 18:40, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> That's not going to happen soon. While it works OK for amd64, there's =
still many bugs in its ARM support and even more in its MIPS support. =
There's 0 chance it will be gone in 10...

I disagree.  There is a significant chance that gcc in base will be gone =
for all Tier 1 platforms in 10.0.  There are still some reasons to want =
gcc installed, but there are no compelling reasons to want an ancient =
version of gcc installed on x86[-64] or ARM.  For people who need gcc, =
the ports collection provides a selection of recent versions.

David