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Date:      Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:40:38 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc41/files patch-c-decl.c ports/lang/gcc34/files patch-c-decl.c
Message-ID:  <20050908174038.GA35829@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0509081903360.83804@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
References:  <200509071015.j87AF8Ew012882@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.62.0509081903360.83804@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >   Added files:
> >     lang/gcc41/files     patch-c-decl.c 
> >     lang/gcc34/files     patch-c-decl.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Fix bug where static forward declarations weren't accepted.
> >   This allows us to fix non-ISO-C constructs in our kernel to legal ISO-C.
...
> Why only gcc34 and gcc41, but not gcc40?

Those are the only two versions applicable to FreeBSD's /usr/src right
now.  If this gets back ported to the gcc 4.0 branch we'll pick it up
thru the back door.

> And why the hurry?

People are trying to compile /src/src with GCC 4.x and proposing bad
changes.  I want to get the bug fix out.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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