FreeBSD 7.0 using GCC 4?

[O. Hartmann]

LI Xin wrote:
> Alexander Kabaev wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:20:24 +0800
>> LI Xin <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Will we be using 4.1.x series or 4.2.x series for 7.0-RELEASE? Just
>>> curious :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -- 
>>> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
>>> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
>>>
>>>       
>> 4.2.0. This is the first compiler version in GCC history to actually
>> shrink compiled boot2 code and that alone gave it many points in 4.1
>> vs. 4.2 shootout. There are other advantages as well. 4.2 can build
>> unpatched firefox and have it working, while 4.1 builds binary with
>> broken relocations, etc.
>>     
>
> Wow, that's great, thanks for the work!
>
> Cheers,
>   
A while ago a discussion herein was triggered about this subject and as 
I remember myself, the decission was made in favor of gcc 4.1. Watching 
Linux/Gentoo Forums for a while I was reading many suggestions not using 
gcc 4.1.1 as it is standard in newest branches/distributions, because of 
several serious misbehaviours/generating broken code.

We will see
Oliver