Popular platforms Switched To gcc 3.3.1 on NetBSD

Dan writes "The anticipated GCC3.3.1 switch on NetBSD has happened for some of the popular platforms. NetBSD's Matthew Green announced that he has switched the alpha, i386, sparc and sparc64 ports to use GCC 3.3.1 as the default system compiler. At the same time, NetBSD's Matt Thomas announced that the arm ports(acorn26, acorn32, cats, and shark) have been switched over as well."

Comments

gcc

[Tirel]

Does GCC now properly support -march=athlonxp ? (it was broken in x=3.2)

Re:gcc

[noselasd]

Got any pointers to the brokenness ? I use -march=athlon-xp on RedHat 9 (gcc 3.2.2 + some patches) and it seems ok.
Another point. Will NetBSD 1.6.2(or any 1.6.x) include this switch to gcc 3 ?
Or is it a feature of the upcoming NetBSD 2.0 ?
Which leads to; when can one expect NetBSD 2.0 ? This year ? 2005 ?
(zealots that know nothing more than "when its ready" need not reply.)

Re:Question

[kjs3]

Nice troll. You know...all I ever hear is Stallman and associated syncophants telling people not to use *BSD because it's not "free", at least by their definition. Which is, of course, the only valid one. Hypocracy indeed.

Answer.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, and the next time when someone uses the word "Linux" to mean anything other than the Kernel Tarball as released by Linux Torvalas, can I point out how that is a marketing and branding powergrab taken right from the Mircosoft marketing playbook?

Re:Question

[Anonymous Coward]

I have to point out X11 is pretty fundemental for most primarily GPL-based Linux distros too. Currently pure GPL or pure BSD licensed platforms aren't an option.

One another note, TENDRA *may* present a valid alternative to GCC someday (which would be nice -- I don't care about the license, but diversity is good!). Sadly, I wouldn't advise anyone to hold their breath waiting.

Re:*BSD for Windows XP?

[noselasd]

I don't have any bittorrent link , but you can download the install cd from e.g. www.netbsd.org or www.freebsd.org. You will need VMWare to install it under windowsXP though. And you need not worry about the viruses and worms you have on your unpatched winxxp (and your head) will infect the *BSD, the daemon will keep them away.

RMS says *BSD is free

[yerricde]

all I ever hear is Stallman and associated syncophants telling people not to use *BSD because it's not "free", at least by their definition.

The X11 license, the Expat license, and the new BSD license are listed on GNU.org as GPL-compatible free software licenses, and the old BSD license is listed as not compatible with the GNU GPL but still a free software license. Thus, an operating system consisting of Expat licensed programs, X11 licensed programs, and *BSD licensed programs is free software.

Please show me where Mr. Stallman has discouraged users from making use of non-copylefted free software. In fact, www.gnu.org and www.stallman.org run Apache HTTP Server, whose license resembles the old BSD license, on the Debian GNU/Linux OS.