From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Toon Moene To: Geoff Keating Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:44:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B55F22C.654AB38F@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> References: <200107172020.NAA09154@geoffk.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01301.html [ With my GNU Fortran maintainer hat on, but also a little bit as member of the SC ... ] Geoff Keating wrote: Thanks for discussing this in the open. > So, one plan being considered is that we take a compiler out of the > Red Hat internal tree (based sometime after 3.0), make a release, and > ship that as the default compiler. Then if we can make the kernel > work with this compiler, we have one compiler, which we can fully > support. We didn't have time to do either of these for RHL 7, but we > do for RHL 8. It would have my preference (strongly) if Red Hat based its system compiler on GCC-3.0.x (whatever x is released at the moment the decision has to be made) + bug fixes (which would return in the GCC release branch). However, ISTR that gcc-2.96-rh contained the subreg byte patch, which wasn't deemed stable enough for the 3.0 release branch. How would Red Hat want to deal with that (David Miller, Jakub Jelinek ?). -- Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html Join GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction)