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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 04:43:00PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> 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 problem (extern struct foo bar[]; is no longer valid) since you not only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.

No, only for 3.4.4, which is going to be imported after I finish
testing the latest patchset from kan.

Kris

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