Robert Collins wrote:
> > BTW-Robert mentioned OpenBSD and Squid's DNS code when
> > compiled O2. I
> > believe this was a 2.95 variant of GCC...and in fact, was known to be
> > broken. But I don't recal the specifics of all of that.
>
> Yes. It also breaks on net?free? BSD (Adrian?)
As far as I know it breaks most Intel (but I may be confusing the DNS
problem with the other GCC-2.95.X problem we had), but when I looked
into it all Linux vendors using 2.95.X had patched the problems seen
since long back so it was a little hard to find a broken compiler..
> The openBSD gcc was, IIRC, a 2.96 labelled as 2.95 (errgh), but I may
> well be wrong.
There is no GCC 2.96 version. Period. Anything labeled 2.96 is a custom
version hopefully somewhere inbetween 2.95.X and 3.0.
In case of RedHat the version bump from 2.95 to 2.96 is fully justified,
and I find this custom flavor of GCC to have a very good quality with
excellent responsiveness whenever there is a proven compiler problem, by
far exceeding the quality of the official GCC releases.
Opefully GCC-3.X will soon be getting into shape, but it usually takes a
couple of years before a new major compiler version is mature wrt
compiler bugs so maybe in a year or so..
Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 19:46:03 MST
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