[gambit-list] OT on GCC

Mikael mikael.rcv at gmail.com
Wed Aug 7 06:03:12 EDT 2013


Ah, brief summary on the content:

Miod, the maintainer, highlights how these quality problems originate in
GCC's update strategy, within which they don't provide any Long Term
Support releases, and their latest releases where they fix old bugs, always
introduce new bugs.

And, he kind of upens up for switching OBSD over to some other C compiler,
and leaves open which that would be, if there is even one.


Thought this might be of interest to some on the list, with regard to the
> reports that have been that certain GCC versions consume lots of memory or
> generate invalid code:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232&w=2
>
> By OpenBSD's system compiler maintainer (as in, GCC maintainer).
>
>
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