Re: GCC

["Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl%pix.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:14:59PM +0200, Vincent wrote:
> Jörg,
>
>> Because it still means we have to fight all the breakage it creates for
>> very small gains. It is a question of maintainance.
>
> Granted for maintenance. But NetBSD cannot stall forever on a increasingly 
> obsolete GCC version. gcc 4.1, for example, has no specific (integer and 
> schedule) support for Core 2 architectures, if I am not mistaken, this has 
> been introduced in gcc 4.3. Now, there are the new Penryn processor out 
> there, with sse4, supported only in gcc 4.3. Etc.

My selfish reason for wanting a more modern gcc is the support for
coldfire 54xx and 54xxx CPUs.  They've given a whack normalizing
the other m68k-ish support too (this appeared in the 4.3.0 release)
as part of the revamp for the coldfire:

        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-01/msg00764.html

-Kurt