FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Monday, 25. April 2005 18:13, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:26:48PM +0200, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> > Do not forget about pointyhat which compiles a tons of ports.  Switching
> > it to gcc-4.0 would decrease builds time, and it's not a bad idea IMHO.
>
> Any port that uses Fortran will be broken by a blanket switch
> to gcc-4.0.0.  g77 is no longer a GCC frontend.  Gfortran, which
> replaces g77, can handle somewhere around 95% of the Fortran 77
> language and around 90% of the Fortran 95 language.

From what I've heard and read, gcc 4.0.0's increased pickyness also raises the 
bar for getting existing objective-c code to compile - by introducing follies 
such as refusing to compile objective-c sources with a .c extension. 

OTOH, people are pretty excited about gcc 4's new C++ features such as the 
visibility support - it seems the gap between C,C++ and the more marginal 
languages supported by the gcc is increasing.

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