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Date:      Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:29:23 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0-Current and gcc 4.x
Message-ID:  <20050618162922.GE55448@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de>
References:  <42B409A7.5020909@mail.uni-mainz.de>

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On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 01:46:47PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
> As I see in the sources, FreeBSD 6.0-Current is still based on gcc 
> 3.4.4. I think due to code freezing this version will be the platform 
> compiler when 6.0-RELEASE comes out. Are there any plans using a more 
> recent version of gcc, like 4.0 or 4.1? On some lists I read something 
> about better support of the features of AMD64/EM64T architectures, 
> especially SSE3.
> 

It's David O'Brien and Kan's call, but I would recommend
against the use of gcc 4.0.0.  GCC is in the process of
(early) release of 4.0.1 due to serious bugs affecting
compilation of C++ and KDE.

-- 
Steve



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