On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:36:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > But unlike others that doesn't seems to care a lot about which > compiler is default in lenny, I would be sad to not see gcc-4.3 our > default compiler. It comes with a lot of enhanced warnings and error > checking, that I've seen in action, and hence know to be worthwhile (the > array bound checking e.g. is really nice). And the g++ strictness wrt > headers is important to have, else code developed on Debian would need > porting to work on other distributions. I believe Debian to be an > excellent development platform, and we should not lag behind wrt stable > development tools.
I mostly have a problem with the default gcc being behind on i386/amd64. Most of our maintainers and users will be using that. Things might for instance be broken with gcc 4.3 and nobody notices it. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
