Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:15:23 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast Message-ID: <426D4FDB.70000@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <200504252155.53895.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <E1DQ5MS-000FUi-51@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <20050425152648.GB25681@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050425161311.GA3008@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200504252155.53895.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday, 25. April 2005 18:13, Steve Kargl wrote: > >>On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:26:48PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: >> >>>Do not forget about pointyhat which compiles a tons of ports. Switching >>>it to gcc-4.0 would decrease builds time, and it's not a bad idea IMHO. >> >>Any port that uses Fortran will be broken by a blanket switch >>to gcc-4.0.0. g77 is no longer a GCC frontend. Gfortran, which >>replaces g77, can handle somewhere around 95% of the Fortran 77 >>language and around 90% of the Fortran 95 language. > > > From what I've heard and read, gcc 4.0.0's increased pickyness also raises the > bar for getting existing objective-c code to compile - by introducing follies > such as refusing to compile objective-c sources with a .c extension. > > OTOH, people are pretty excited about gcc 4's new C++ features such as the > visibility support - it seems the gap between C,C++ and the more marginal > languages supported by the gcc is increasing. > As another data point, java support is supposed to be vastly improved. Not that it would be an important factor for the system compiler, though. Cheers, Panagiotis
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