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Date:      Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:38:41 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GCC 4.0 [Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast]
Message-ID:  <426D5551.4090707@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <p0621020cbe930300304b@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <20050425010242.GA44110@xor.obsecurity.org> <6.2.1.2.0.20050424210422.03d22990@64.7.153.2> <20050425014453.GA59981@xor.obsecurity.org> <426C6B1D.3040704@elischer.org> <20050425061459.GA33247@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050425062106.GB91852@voodoo.oberon.net> <426CF3DE.4000409@samsco.org> <20050425160146.4795fe1b.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <426CF91A.8060907@samsco.org> <20050425144259.GL91852@voodoo.oberon.net> <20050425182033.GC40370@xor.obsecurity.org> <p0621020cbe930300304b@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> For what it's worth:  Some friends of mine are claiming that "Tiger"
> (MacOS 10.4) will be coming with gcc 4.0.  And Tiger is already
> shipping, although the official release date isn't until this Friday.

Yes, it's public knowledge that the Tiger Dev tools are based on GCC
4.0.

> 
> I'm not saying that we should switch to it because of that, but I'm
> just mentioning it as an interesting data point (assuming it is true!).
> 

This would be a good reason to switch if our primary platform was
PowerPC and Objective C, since I'm sure that Apple has given those a
very good workout.  But for i386, amd64, and sparc64, there might not
have been as much good exposure yet.

Scott



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