On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:20:02PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-26 17:51]: > > Yes. I think Ubuntu is on track for 4.3 as well, most likely Debian, too. > > I've been testing 4.3 on a number of architectures Debian supports and > filings bugs. There are still many that haven't been resolved yet. > Of course, gcc 4.3 also introduces build failures in about 550 > packages (mostly due to the C++ header inclusion clean-up) and these > need to be fixed too. However, Debian's next release is further away > than SUSE's and Fedora's so there should be enough time to fix these > issues.
You might want to hold off on investing the work in fixing those 550 packages, because I think it's premature to consider the header "cleanup" final. Can you estimate how many of the broken packages use <ext/hash_set> or <ext/hash_map>?