Verily I say unto thee, that Linonut spake thusly:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Jerry McBride belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> New GCC 4.2.0 -- boon to developers, bore to distros
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Earlier this week, the GNU project announced a major release of
>>> | the popular GNU Compiler Collection. GCC 4.2.0 introduces new
>>> | features and several improvements for developers, but most of
>>> | the distribution developers we spoke with aren't rushing to take
>>> | advantage of the new release.
>>> `----
>>>
>> http://programming.linux.com/programming/07/05/18/1323239.shtml?tid=67&tid=51
>>
>> It's new and like all new, major changes... it'll take a while to catch on.
>> I'm interested in the openMP stuff as more and more hardware is being sold
>> with dual processors... Could be a major performance boost in the making...
>
> And, actually, that article is quite positive about GCC 4.2.
With the one exception of Red Hat's questionable decision to run with
2.96 (circa RH 7.3) most GCC updates have been reasonably easy to deal
with. The transition from 2 to 3 was a bit of a pain, and 3 to 4
slightly less so. Ultimately when 4.2 does hit the buildsystems then I'm
going to have my work cut out for me. I'm thinking of one project in
particular, where the GPL version is maintained by someone who works at
the same company that produces the commercial version of the same
software. The GPL version is lagging somewhat and still has the legacy
of STL garbage that I fear it will never shake off.
Anyway, I'm sure the dust will soon settle. The good news (for the
Trolls) is that between F7 coming out in a couple of weeks, and the
impending GCC madness, I'm likely to be very, very busy, and therefore
absent from COLA for the duration.
(F7 will *not* ship GCC-4.2 immediately, but the build *will* include
quite a few backports, so I'm still anticipating some ... er, issues.)
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| 'Also, no one calls it PCI-X even though that's the "official "
| shortening of the much more commonly used "PCI Express".'
| - Hardon Quirk, COLA's resident "genius".
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