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Ryan Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com> posted eajdfc$st1$1@×××××××××.org, |
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excerpted below, on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:56:47 -0600: |
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> Most major archs have at least some version of 3.3 and 3.4 available in |
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> stable. Sometimes even 2.95, and some lucky winners have 4.1 in ~arch. |
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> amd64 has 3.3 masked for some reason i don't understand, and other |
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> arches might too. i'm just going off of what eshowkw tells me. |
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FWIW on amd64 and gcc (as a Gentoo/amd64 user not necessarily privy to |
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certain Gentoo/amd64 dev team details) ... |
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gcc-3.3 is masked on amd64 due to multilib issues. Gentoo/amd64 multilib |
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handling has matured and changed over time, with the new handling being |
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introduced and stabilized along with a new profile and gcc-3.4. gcc-3.3 |
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wasn't upgraded to the new multilib handing, in part because its amd64 |
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support wasn't all that great anyway -- it worked, but was "bolted on" and |
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it showed -- so with 3.4's amd64 handling being better already, and |
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limited resources available, 3.3 was masked on what was then the new |
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profiles, and support deprecated and eventually phased out in parallel |
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with the older profiles and their older multilib handling. |
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Actually, talking gcc4 now, on amd64, I'd compare the jump from 3.4 to 4.1 |
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to a full version jump if not more, 3.1 to 4.1 if not 2.9x to 4.1, on x86. |
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Thus it wouldn't surprise me to see 3.4 go the way of 3.3, some time in |
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2007. It can remain keyworded but masked for those who want to play with |
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the older versions beyond that, but without any sort of support for those |
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choosing to do so. Again, I'm not a devel and my opinions do not the |
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future path of Gentoo/amd64 denote, but there's a big enough difference in |
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performance, IMO, that beyond a reasonable gcc4 stabilization and gcc3 |
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deprecation period, it makes little sense to continue to support gcc3. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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