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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. Re:Waiting for 3.4 by ctr2sprt · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm not worried about the ABI compatibility, I'm worried about the reliability of the compiler. gcc has been an extremely dangerous product for some time now. If you run anything more than -O you're in real danger of getting broken code, even on popular architectures and operating systems.

    If I were running things over at NetBSD HQ, I'd be much more worried about that than feature-completeness.

  2. Re:Waiting for 3.4 by Ded+Bob · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You may always try the TenDRA compiler.