[CLUE-Tech] GCC versions

[Tom Poindexter]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:09:41PM -0600, Collins wrote:
> 
> Unless you like life on the bleeding edge, you have no need for 3.0.
> Various hacker types on gentoo have been toying with this for many
> months now, and they still can't produce a reliable system.  Programs
> compiled with a mixture of 2.95 and 3.+ components fail miserably.
> 
> My $.02, don't worry about 3.0 until stable realeases begin to appear.

I'd disagree, GCC 3.1.1 has just been released, produces faster code (6-8%,
with the right -m, -f & -O options).  The only caveat with Linux is I don't
know if the kernel likes GCC 3.x yet.  There was some kernel code that
relied on certain code generation from the 2.9x series.  

I believe I saw that RedHat's next release will be fully based on
GCC 3.1.  There's certainly no reason that you can't have both.  I
build GCC and stick it in /usr/local/gcc3, it's a simple matter of
PATH adjustment to get the 3.x compiler.

YMMV

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Tom Poindexter
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