Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-25 Thread Nicolai Guba
On Sunday 24 April 2005 13:10, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone done anything big with the new compiler yet? Like an emerge -e world? This bug : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21167 make some things difficult, anyway you can compile 95% of emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 4/25/05, Nicolai Guba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why bother with GCC at all? It is a horrible compiler which produces slow code (and has many optimizations above -O2 broken). It's main advantages are that it is portable and free. If you are looking for a compiler that actually produces

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0 ?

2005-04-25 Thread Richard Fish
Nicolai Guba wrote: Why bother with GCC at all? It is a horrible compiler which produces slow code (and has many optimizations above -O2 broken). It's main advantages are that it is portable and free. If you are looking for a compiler that actually produces good binaries you are looking the

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone done anything big with the new compiler yet? Like an emerge -e world? This bug : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21167 make some things difficult, anyway you can compile 95% of emerge -e but do it only in a thrashing ready environment. -- No

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 April 2005 01:50 am, Willie Wong wrote: last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the gentoo-user list is the best place to ask this question at this moment. Thanks to you and Bastian, I'm coming up to speed on

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? Don't know about favored. It's the one I use =) So far it hasn't failed me... W -- * Address: 45 Spelman

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 April 2005 12:52 pm, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? Don't know about favored. It's the one I use =) So far it hasn't failed me... It hasn't failed you? You mean

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Willie Wong
Well... modulo tweaking USE flags to disable some things and changing my CFLAGS, everything I compiled runs like expected, and everything I wanted compiled. Can't vouch for all the packages in portage though (= Best W On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:10:41PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 24

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-23 Thread Willie Wong
last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the gentoo-user list is the best place to ask this question at this moment. OTOH, searching around on the gentoo forums, it seems that some people are adventurous enough. Some problems they