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From: Jake Hamby <hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD still using GCC 2.4.5?!
Date: 21 Sep 1995 20:18:18 GMT
Organization: JPL
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I already posted this question to a few NetBSD mailing lists, but they are so
slow I thought I might get a quicker response from USENET. I just installed
NetBSD/Sparc (after a WONDERFUL experience with FreeBSD on the PC), and was in
the midst of building NetBSD/current, when I realized that NetBSD is still
using GCC 2.4.5... Why is this??
I know there are a few optimizer bugs (at least with -O2 on a i386) in GCC
2.6.3, but NetBSD should AT LEAST move up to 2.5.8 or even jump all the way to
2.7.0! At any rate, I'm going to build 2.7.0 myself and see if anything
unusual happens... In the mean time, is there any particular reason why NetBSD
is still at GCC 2.4.5 or just simple inertia?
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Jake Hamby | E-Mail: hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov
Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
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