On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:58:42AM +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > On 2005-02-22, at 00:25, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > >FreeBSD is fairly conservative with updating the system compiler. > > That is fairly wrong. Usually FreeBSD current is ahead of the Linux > gang in terms of the compiler since about 5 years. They used to be more > conservative but this changed since about gcc 3.0 time. Nowadays they > are usually ahead of the Linux bunch. I think it would not be too surprising > to see them integrate 4.0 very quickly after it turns out to be not too > buggy.
As one of the few people who argued with David O'Brien on the inclusion of g77 into FreeBSD when g77 finally was included in a gcc distribution, I can assure you that FreeBSD will be conservative in switching to gcc 4.x. There is simply too much internals churn for the people who maintain gcc within FreeBSD to jump on gcc 4.x. -- Steve
