Mattias Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I must say that this issue that you think it nothing to care about is
> the stability of all the programs included in the distribution. They
> know it's unstable since they have choosen not to compile the kernel
> with it, but the rest of the system is not that important. It's about
That's untrue. Read litterature from Torvalds on that subject to become
convinced. You have to know that the kernel has a lot of code that rely on
special features of gcc to compile, and would not compile with other C
compilers. That's partially why current gcc (2.96) can't compile the
kernel currently.
Also, don't take us for idiots; if your statement was true, we would not
choose to use 2.96, we're not dumb.
> that the developers of gcc have said that they dont want gcc 2.96 to be
> used in distros, and I think it's important to respect the developers
> will.
Not all the developpers have said that.
Reality is that using that compiler in distros such as rh and us, brings a
very large test code base for gcc and help them to progress in their work.
Also, gcc-2.96 fixes many very important problems in gcc-2.95. Especially
in terms of C++ code, they produced a lot of nice work and 2.96 brings
many enhancements.
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
