Re: upgrading GCC 4.1 branch

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:57:41 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:35:52PM -0800, Tom Spindler wrote:
> > > > And, why don't we go straight to 4.2.3? :)
> > > 
> > > GPLv3 and GCC 4.2 regressions.
> > 
> > Could you please enumerate what the GPLv3 issues actually are?
> > There was some talk about binutils' libbfd being GPLv3, which is
> > noxious - but the last time I checked the gcc tree, none of
> > {libgcc, crt?.o, et al} were GPLv3'ed.
> 
> It doesn't cover libgcc and crt*, but it is still present for the rest
> of GCC. I would prefer we don't set a precedence, IMO.
> 
Does this mean that we're forever frozen in our version of gcc?


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