Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:21:10 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <20010118072110.A431@puck.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <200101180634.f0I6Y9s43405@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:34:09PM -0700 References: <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net> <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101160915000.18917-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> <20010117162115.C7752@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20010117191618.K1761@puck.firepipe.net> <200101180634.f0I6Y9s43405@harmony.village.org>
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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:34:09PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > That's a red herring. The new features thing is what I mean. If I > were creating a product, I'd want one that is supported. So even if I > don't *NEED* a feature in 5.x, I might migrate my product to 5.x so > that I can continue to get bug fixes and leverage more support than I > can get with an older rev. One of the 5.x features might well be a > new compiler. I don't see that sort of thing being back ported to 4.x > at this point. I see. I guess that makes sense, although I don't see support for 4.x dropping until sometime in 2003 (speaking in terms of the FreeBSD Project, not necessarily commercial shops like BSDI). > That's one of the big reasons that we're 4.x based right now rather > than 3.x based, despite 4.x's slightly larger memory footprint. That > and 4.x's much better c++ compiler. Well, Warner, I've never done embedded systems. So, tell me, do they actually use any C++ code in embedded systems? C++ has a rather high overhead as far as disk space & memory goes. I would imagine that 99%+ of embedded systems do not use C++ code except perhaps for a very small amount of the code. --=20 wca #include <std/disclaimer.h>: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just myself. --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6Zt+1F47idPgWcsURAkRgAJ9nqRGf8E8yycWC0ULgGAQDfF2voQCeMGp/ Pr8Zu1SglXCRgFXmggAuOvU= =ioAU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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