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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GCC-Version in 2.1 ?
Date: 3 Oct 1995 15:40:14 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <44rlgu$51u@helena.MT.net>
References: <44jj8q$n26@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <5v6eVQfzoRB@subloch.swb.de>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <5v6eVQfzoRB@subloch.swb.de>,
Stefan Huerter <maulwurf@subloch.swb.de> wrote:
>Guckux Oliver
>
>brand@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Oliver Brand) wrote:
>
>> A simple question: Does anybody (perhaps someone of the core-team) know
>> which version of the gnu compiler will appear in the next release of
>> FreeBSD (2.1 or 2.2) ??  Will it be 2.6.3 or 2.7.0 ?
>
>I hope, it will be 2.7.0, the 2.6.3 has to many bugs for intel cpus.

2.7.0 has as many if not more bugs for intel cpus.  If you watch the
gnu.gcc.bugs mailing list/newsgroup, you will notice a huge number of bugs
reported on x86 machines with regards to optimization.  These bugs are not
apparent in 2.6.3.


Nate
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