On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 19:45, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 18:09 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Don't be stupid, only a few people really need NPTL stuff, and you can > > always > > follow testing/unstable once sarge is released. > > This is a bogus argument actually :) It translates basically that "only > a few people need more performant, more conformant and less buggy code"
Alternately, it translates as "nobody uses release anyway". > > > BTW, gcc-3.4 is working quite well for me. Not that > > > it should be needed though; I'd have expected glibc > > > to be getting at thread-local data via functions. > > > > Probably. There is gcc-4.0 also which i don't know the release schedule > > about. > > 3.4 branch is very stable and well behaved on ppc, it's definitely what > I would recommend for now, _even_ for sarge in fact. > > 4.0 is still not ready to be used by anything but gcc hackers imho :) Not even for potential bug reporters? Will a kernel boot if compiled with gcc 4? At times, I write some pretty wild code using gcc extensions. I'd be happy to run my code through the latest gcc if it were available through the regular Debian package mechanism. I use computed goto, the C99 restrict keyword, a variety of function attributes, __constructor__, and more. I even have a test suite I can run to make sure things work OK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
