On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:07 PM, narendra babu <[email protected]> wrote: > option 2 has a catch , if i don't use vendor supplied gcc , the warranty > will be void if some thing breaks in production and if support issue is > raised with vendor they will come back and ask which compiler is used . > > But still i want to use the latest GCC compiler from gnu website because of > lot of improvements and bug fixes .
You need to invest time in seeing if the newer compiler improvements actually make a difference to your application. Simply using a newer compiler because it is 'new' is pointless. Most major bug fixes are backported in vendor compilers (or you can get them backported), so that should not be a bother. In fact the 'additional patches' you see are almost always these backported fixes. -- Siddhesh Poyarekar http://siddhesh.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
