about the gcc 3.4.x problems
Thomas David Rivers
rivers at dignus.com
Fri Jul 30 05:23:22 PDT 2004
"Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff at sea-incorporated.com>
>
> GCC-3.4 is in the tree; rejoice and be glad. GCC-3.5 is not even an
> issue. Just because Apple is using it doesn't mean everybody should.
> Apple has the resources to adopt gcc prereleases early, and thoroughly
> test and fix all the problems that they will undoubtedly find.
>
On a side note - I'm not sure Apple has/had those resources.
We reported a bug in their gcc (it wouldn't compile some of
our sources, complaining of an internal error) in OS X 10.1.
(A pre-release of GCC 3.2.x, I think.)
The problem was fixed, about a year later, when the latest
OS X was released... so, at last, our products are available
on a mac. We never received a fix and had to buy the new
release to get the new versions.
Many e-mails went to Apple asking about the status of the
problem, pointing to where the fix needed to be made,
etc... but - nothing _ever_ came back from Apple... and then,
a couple of days before the latest release, the bug was
simply closed.
So - it seems, they didn't, in our case, have the resources
to test and correct problems. I have the opinion they
simply jump on the latest... this is admittedly anecdotal.
And, might simply be the exception that proves the rule :-)
- Dave Rivers -
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