[plug] gcc3 vs gcc 2.95.x - belay that!

[Craig Dyke]

Denis

I use a source distro, SourceMage, and have been using
gcc 3.3.2 for sometime with no ill effects.

Hope that helps :)

Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Patrick" <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] gcc3 vs gcc 2.95.x - belay that!


> Denis Brown wrote:
>
> | Debian's package search site has just come alive and I see there is a
> | gcc-3.0 on offer.   Okay, not bleeding edge by all accounts from the gcc
> | site but it should get me (safely) working with the 3 version.
>
> I've been using gcc 3.2/3.3 quite successfully and for numerical stuff
> it does seem to optimise better than gcc 2.9x.  However I've heard tell
> that 3.0 is a bit buggy, especially for C++ (which is apparently still
> undergoing some fixing), so you might be better off avoiding it, or at
> least making sure that it works with what you're compiling with it.
>
> Grabbing a gcc from testing/unstable would probably be a bad move as
> there were some pretty magic binary-incompatible changes made somewhere.
>
> | BTW... I too have had no success getting to Debian's security list today
> | and since their breakin,
>
> klecker.d.o (which hosts security and non-us) is definitely down - it's
> been mentioned on this list and various Debian lists already today.  I'm
> not sure why.
>
> | I have had a lot of pain getting the package searches to return
> | anything other than an error message saying the (package search) site
> | was down.
>
> packages.d.o was down for a long time after the break-in but was fixed a
> few weeks ago and seems to be still working tonight.
>
> Cameron.
>
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