[haiku-development] Re: [haiku] Re: Future releases? Recommend nightlies? gcc2?
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:44:27 +0100
On 12/01/2016 04:55 PM, kallisti5 wrote:
Through all of these conversations, i've never once said to "get rid
of gcc2 (at least until R2 and beyond ;-)) In my eyes having
x86_64 + gcc2 would be ideal for R2 (but we need to work on running 32-bit
code on 64-bit systems)
Just for sake of completeness, since that argument hasn't been mentioned
in this iteration of the discussion yet: Keeping gcc 2 support at all --
even just as a secondary architecture -- means that the code that needs
to be compilable with gcc 2 (i.e. most of the libraries) cannot use
modern C++ features. This hurts more and more with each new C++ standard
and is definitely not helpful for attracting new developers.
The only reasonable option for going forward I see at this point is to
add missing FBC goodies to the gcc 4+ API and fork off the gcc 2
support, either in-tree or even outsource it.
Just my 2 cents.
CU, Ingo
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