GCC 4.0 [Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast]

[Kirill Ponomarew]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:05:14AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Well, I'd caution against jumping into GCC 4.0 just because of the
> claims of 25% speed improvement.  That's about the single worst reason
> to do it.  But if you're interested in moving the technology forward,
> I'd happily encourage you.  The changed language constructs are the big
> problem (extern struct foo bar[]; is no longer valid) since you not only
> need to sweep the FreeBSD tree for them, you also need to sweep the
> ports tree.  I have mixed feeling on the value of GCC making sloppy
> language extentions available for years and then suddenly revoking them,
> and I know others that have been affected by 4.0 aren't terribly happy
> either.

Well. if we're going to import it, it should be tested on pointyhat
first.  IIRC Kris already run tests for some pre 4.0 versions.

-Kirill