[haiku-development] Re: GCC2 and GCC4 on same System

Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree wholeheartedly, and without having thought about it much, I
> currently favor using gcc4 as main compiler and provide a backwards
> compatibility hack. After all, the aim is to phase out gcc-2.95.3 
> support
> soon, right?

After R1, indeed. With a future GCC 4 version of Haiku, we have the one 
time opportunity to cleanly break compatibility and extend the API for 
future extensions such as multi-user. And I don't really want to miss 
that for something that gains as little as a premature switch to GCC 4 
would do.

Bye,
   Axel.

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