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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GCC-Version in 2.1 ? Date: 3 Oct 1995 15:40:14 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 24 Message-ID: <44rlgu$51u@helena.MT.net> References: <44jj8q$n26@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <5v6eVQfzoRB@subloch.swb.de> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <5v6eVQfzoRB@subloch.swb.de>, Stefan Huerter <maulwurf@subloch.swb.de> wrote: >Guckux Oliver > >brand@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Oliver Brand) wrote: > >> A simple question: Does anybody (perhaps someone of the core-team) know >> which version of the gnu compiler will appear in the next release of >> FreeBSD (2.1 or 2.2) ?? Will it be 2.6.3 or 2.7.0 ? > >I hope, it will be 2.7.0, the 2.6.3 has to many bugs for intel cpus. 2.7.0 has as many if not more bugs for intel cpus. If you watch the gnu.gcc.bugs mailing list/newsgroup, you will notice a huge number of bugs reported on x86 machines with regards to optimization. These bugs are not apparent in 2.6.3. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.