[haiku-development] Re: Updating Haiku's GCC4 to 4.4.1

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:58:17 +0200

On 2009-07-23 at 12:57:06 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Joseph Prostko <joe.prostko+haiku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As some of you may know, I have been doing work on a Haiku-ready GCC
> > 4.4. Today GCC 4.4.1 was released, and I am going to do some testing
> > with that in a bit to make sure it still seems nice and stable.
> 
> At least former GCC releases showed that it's usually a good idea to be
> a bit conservative with updating.

Agreed in principle. Nevertheless it would be nice to have the newer 
version more readily available (ideally as optional package).

> Maybe that improved in the mean time,
> but AFAICT 4.3.3 works.

I know at least of two bugs. :-)

> [...]
> > You can all let me know your take on this about the best way to
> > proceed.
> 
> Best is to provide a patch, I would guess.

That wouldn't work particularly well, since we'd also have to update the 
vendor branch. A branch is probably a good idea.

CU, Ingo

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