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[Michael Nottebrock]

On Monday, 1. August 2005 16:48, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> > > >   It is strongly recommended to migrate to GCC 3.4 or 4.0, since only
> > > > these are still actively maintained upstream and support FreeBSD 7,
> > > > for example.
> > >
> > > There are still plenty of software that require GCC 3.3.  This includes
> > > various game SDK's and level editors out there I'm currently working on
> > > porting to FreeBSD.  That is, I'd like to have gcc33 preserved for some
> > > time.  Thanks!
> >
> > You need to support gcc 3.4 anyway, or you end up with USE_GCC= x.y which
> > is evil.
>
> I'm talking about ~200K lines of very 3.3-specific (that is, no strict
> standards conformant) C++ code.  I've tried converting it to 3.4, but I
> stopped after I realized the patch would be just *huge*).

A huge patch is nowhere near as bad as build-depending on a huge compiler 
suite ... (that's assuming your concern really is with the size - I can very 
well imagine that 'fixing' the code would come close to a rewrite and thus a 
fork, which would create problems of a different kind).

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