Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:48:20AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> I'm not very familiar with the compiler development, but it seemed to
> me gcc 4.1 was like a interim solution. This arose due to the fast
> appeareance of it's successor ...

The goal is more frequent major (ie, X.Y.0 -> X.Y+1.0) releases.
Like our 4.0 -> 5.0 experience, GCC when thru similar with its
2.95 -> 3.0.0 release.

As much new FreeBSD features are developed in an alternate repository
(Perforce) after 5.0, GCC makes heavy use of developement branches which
are only merged into the mainline (think our CVS HEAD repository) when
they are ready for prime-time.

You can read the development methodology and rationale at
http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)