-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Wille <mw8329@yahoo.com.au> writes:
Vladimir Prus wrote:
Not that I care about 2.95 either, but I think the reasoning in this thread is a bit faulty. Developers just say "it's too old and non-conforming". But who knows what's used in practice, especially outside of bleeding-edge Linux distros?
Even conservative distributions like Debian use gcc 3 now.
Just to qualify this: - - Debian unstable is using GCC 4.0.3, and has been using GCC 4.0.x as the default compiler for the past six months (previously 3.3.x). - - Debian stable is using GCC 3.3.5, but GCC 3.4.3 is also available. Debian switched to GCC 3.2 as the default compiler in Jan 2003, so we haven't been using GCC 2.95/GCC3.0 for three years. I doubt you'll find any current GNU/Linux distribution, either stable or development release, which used GCC 2.95 as the default system compiler for the last two years at least. Reading mailing lists and usenet, the only people who are still dependent upon GCC 2.95 are typically proprietary software vendors who are stuck with it for ABI reasons, and rarely the odd person who finds a regression in a newer GCC, but didn't bother reporting it, and lazy people who couldn't be bothered to upgrade. Those using it purely for ABI stability will generally never move to a newer GCC or libstdc++, or even upgrade any of the system libraries, so I wouldn't treat them too seriously for ongoing development. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFDwlLTVcFcaSW/uEgRAl8IAKDd6WyofTNIOFfEL0W+Uw8cVrZy7ACeKdka zz2F95TBmdsoJikd8RUtQ4g= =AMsC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----