Re: GCC 3.4.x => 4.0 compatiblity

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Muraco
Well as we speak - im on the verge of grabbing gcc-cvs - the only thing that worries me is that right after i build gcc and start building the system some major bug or regression in 4.0 will be fixed and illl have to basicly start over (its a p2 so its slow) im going to try and compile with -ma

Re: GCC 3.4.x => 4.0 compatiblity

2005-03-10 Thread James E Wilson
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:27, Joe Buck wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:39:28PM -0800, James E Wilson wrote: > > Also, it is probably a little early to worry about this, as the gcc-4 > > release is probably still 2 months away. > While I usually hesitate to disagree with Jim, I will in this case

Re: GCC 3.4.x => 4.0 compatiblity

2005-03-10 Thread Joe Buck
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:39:28PM -0800, James E Wilson wrote: > Andrew Muraco wrote: > >After the compiler is installed im going to recompile glibc using gcc > >4.0 and recompile other major parts of the system > > This is probably more trouble than it is worth. gcc-4 won't be fully > ABI comp

Re: GCC 3.4.x => 4.0 compatiblity

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Muraco
my platform is x86 the distribution i use is Gentoo - so im familiar with compiling a whole distro. and i am aware of the 2 months until the release - but i have been considering using my spare computer to test out gcc-4.0 (maybe i might even try gcc-4.1 if i get daring - and compile the system

Re: GCC 3.4.x => 4.0 compatiblity

2005-03-10 Thread James E Wilson
Andrew Muraco wrote: After the compiler is installed im going to recompile glibc using gcc 4.0 and recompile other major parts of the system This is probably more trouble than it is worth. gcc-4 won't be fully ABI compatible with gcc-3.4, and you are likely to find bugs in gcc and various other

GCC 3.4.x => 4.0 compatiblity

2005-03-07 Thread Andrew Muraco
Okay - at the moment my entire system is compiled with 3.4 (latest on gentoo's portage - 3.4.3.20050110) This included important libraries such as glibc, and many other system libraries. When gcc 4.0 is released on gentoo's portage (which should be very shortly following the offical release on gc