Re: [gentoo-dev] Gcc 3.0.4 installed system

[Joe Oppegaard]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Bart Verwilst wrote:

> Hmm..
>
> Great that gentoo is now gcc3.x compliant :o)
> But what are the advantages of using gcc 3.x over gcc 2.95.x?
> Isn't gcc 3.x slower than 2.95?

One of the advantages of gcc 3.x is that it has special optimizations for
Athlon processors. Other then that, I'm not too familiar with gcc 3.x.


>
> Thanks, great work!
>
> On Saturday 06 April 2002 14:01, Geert Bevin wrote:
> || Hi all,
> ||
> || I finally installed 1.0 from scratch and decided to try it out with gcc
> || 3.0.4 instead of 2.95.3. Along the way I encountered some problems, but
> || surprisingly little. I've fixed everything that needed fixing and sadly
> || some packages are backwards incompatible. For that reason and for the
> || ease of maintenance I've created a dedicated gcc 3 profile.
> ||
> || So, for those that want to try this out, just link the default-1.0-gcc3
> || profile instead of default-1.0 to /etc/make.profile. Note that this will
> || only work for installations from scratch and not for updates since
> || applications that link against libstdc++ v2 require the libraries of gcc
> || v2 and not gcc v3.
> ||
> || There are still some packages that don't compile such as galeon and
> || openjade, but these will be fixed in a matter of time since I need them
> || ;-) Feel free to submit fixes too.
> ||
> || Best regards,
> ||
> || Geert Bevin
>
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> Bart Verwilst
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