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GCC 3.3 Update Status on NetBSD

Posted by michael on from the minor-issues dept.

Dan writes "Matthew Green says that the gcc3 update on NetBSD is going well. They are almost ready to switch several platforms including i386, sparc, sparc64, arm, mipsel, alpha. Mipseb and m68k are almost done. Sets lists need to be updated and building more kernels with gcc3.3 are the things still pending."

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  1. NetBSD by kernelistic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's nice to see NetBSD updating their compiler suite to something newer. Compiling and testing for so many archs and procs is quite an undertaking!

  2. Re:Waiting for 3.4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "(although of course Linux doesn't have UVM yet)"

    What an utterly meaningless statement. UVM was a redesign of the Mach-derivied 4.4BSD VM (which was in turn a replacement for the original, highly VAX specific VM).

    Linux's VM is a totally seperate implementation from either the old Mach-based VM, or UVM.

    You might as well say "of course, NetBSD doesn't have NET4 yet"; of course it doesn't, it has it's own, seperate TCP/IP stack.

    It's because of people like you that I have to preface "I use NetBSD" with: "I'm not a crazed, uniformed zealot, but ". You're giving the Linux crazies a real run for their money.