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Date:      Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:25:08 -0700
From:      Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0-Current and gcc 4.x
Message-ID:  <1119479108.2709.3.camel@server.mcneil.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050622221942.GA36733@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de> <42B417C7.80904@samsco.org> <20050619043539.GA46516@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050622221942.GA36733@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:19 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 09:35:39PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 06:47:03AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > > Given all the disruptions in the past 3 years over gcc
> > > 3.x, I think it would be nice to take a small break and not be on the
> > > bleeding edge of gcc.
> > 
> > I think you're grossly over exagerating the "disruptions" over GCC 3.x.
> 
> The ABI breakage at numerous points early in the GCC 3.x branch was
> extremely disruptive.

This is the amd64 mailing list, so I assume you are talking about amd64
machines and I thought the architecture wasn't really supported before
GCC 3.x.  In any event, I doubt there would be any such disruption
between 3.x and 4.x.  The amd64 ABI is pretty solid now, correct?

Cheers,
Sean





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