On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:39 AM, <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Perhaps for gcc2 software that is acceptable, I don't know. > > think old gcc2 software (if there is any that is still used) + current > CPU should be more than happy with the current version But this also means that any newly ported software would be restricted to compilation with gcc4 - which would be unacceptable for other reasons (unstable API/ABI for example). For example, there are some ported SDL-OpenGL apps that run absolutely horrible with software-rendered 3d. Some of them even compile with gcc2... but I suppose that's rare.