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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