Hello all. As many know, various linux distributors are working on re-compiling their distros with GCC mainline in the hopes of helping GCC 4.3 stabilize. As part of this effort, many bugs have been filed in GCC bugzilla, and many portability issues have been identified.
Attached is a rough cut of a detailed portability document for GCC 4.3, compiled with the assistance of Fedora and Debian activists. (Particular thanks to Jakub J and Martin Michlmayr). Currently it lists the major issues each distribution has found when upgrading (minus ICE type errors). It is our goal to have a detailed guide for users of GCC who wish to upgrade, hosted on the gcc.gnu.org site. Although we'd initially thought of putting this on the GCC wiki, the current thought is a better placement would be to put this alongside the release notes, ie: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/changes.html would be joined by http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/porting_to.html This would imply that the porting document would be checked in to wwwdocs and available to all the usual GCC contributors to edit and update. As such, I'd like to get a general indication from the greater GCC community as to this plan. Does this document seem like a good idea? (Previously, we've left this kind of document to the user community. Often the passage of time has not been particularly kind to these links.) Is the suggested placement ok for everybody? If this is ok, some editing of duplicate info from changes.html should take place. I volunteer to do this. And, finally, we'd need an ok from the wwwdocs head dude, Gerald. Thoughts and comments? best, benjamin
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