gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 9 03:07:09 PST 2009


> Hi Current,
> 
>    I personally dont mind GCC being of a older version for the world and 
> kernel compiles, however, I do wish that a newer version of binutils were 
> used.
> 
>    I can compile GCC from the ports or download the sources and compile it 
> there, but it seems to get really icky if you have two versions of binutils 
> installed. The benifits of having the newer binutils is that I can compile 
> using SSE4.1 which bomb out now due to the older "as" not knowing the new 
> opcodes.
> 
>    I believe there are licenscing issues with using the newer binutils, but 
> what they are I have no idea.

I am sure the last GPLv2 is MUCH newer than what we have now :) 


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