Subject: Why still using GCC 2.4.5?
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG, current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/21/1995 13:11:57
I've been using FreeBSD on my PC for the last few weeks and loved 
it so much that yesterday decided to try out NetBSD on my SPARCstation 2.
Right now I'm doing a "make build" on NetBSD-current and I noticed that 
NetBSD is still using GCC 2.4.5?!?  Why hasn't it been upgraded to 2.7.0, 
or 2.6.3, or even 2.5.8?

At any rate, after it finishes installing /usr/lib, I'm going to try 
compiling GCC 2.7.0 and then finish the build.  In the meantime, are 
there any known problems with these later version of GCC (I know 2.6.3 
has some optimizer bugs with -O2 on the i386), that have prevented 
NetBSD-current from upgrading, or is it just simple inertia?  Thanks in 
advance!

---Jake Hamby
  jehamby@lightside.com