gcc 3.3.1

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Sep 21 03:51:18 PDT 2003


On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:40:45PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:46:27PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > Do I have any thing to worry about upgrading versions of gcc, from ports, in
> > stable?
> 
> Depends what your intentions are.  You can use it to compile your own
> code, and most ports, but some ports and the FreeBSD 4.x base system
> cannot be compiled with gcc 3.x.

I forgot to mention that you'll run into problems if you try and mix
and match C++ libraries and code compiled with different gcc
revisions (they periodically break C++ binary compatibility).

Kris
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