Re: Huge changes

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10.06.2005, at 11:19, Ed wrote:
> On Friday 10 June 2005 09:49, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> > > GCC-4 is also coming in.  Now is definitely not the time :-)

but not default...

> > I have read some months ago that there are indeed a couple of 
> > advantages
> > in gcc 3 although compile time is slower than in 2 (is binary 
> > execution
> > also slower?). But what is for DragonFly the advantages of 4 over 3 or
> > even 2?

"they" say compile time for .c code is slower, for .cc especially with 
lots of templates is much faster. i can confirm the c++ part.

like asmo said, it got better warning messages than gcc3, so we might 
want to use it to occasionally check and clean code.

> What about ProPolice ?
>
> OpenBSD's Marc Espie said there isn't a port for gcc4:
> http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/5842

yes, doesn't exist yet. maybe it will be available in some distant time.

cheers
  simon

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