Subject: Re: GCC3.3.1 switch coming soon.
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Main <ian-netbsd@stemwinder.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/04/2003 10:56:27
On sparc64 it also makes a lot of stuff work that didn't before (C++
programs).

	Ian

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:26:33AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 07:10:25AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > GCC 3.3.1 causes *lots* of build problems in "pkgsrc", see e.g.
> > PR toolchain/22671. I think it needs to stabelize more before it can
> > be made the default compiler.
> 
> Most of the problems are stricter checking finding bogus code. That's
> a good think (tm). I am not aware of a single unfixed compiler bug in the
> in-tree toolchain.
> 
> Now my PR you cited may be an exception, may be caused by not yet finished
> configuration for NetBSD, or by an improper update from gcc 2.95.2 to 3.3.1,
> or may be the pkgs fault - we don't know yet.
> 
> But you will never find this kind of problems if it is *not* made the
> default compiler.
> 
> 
> Martin
>