Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>]

Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> [ Disclaimer: I *am* speaking for DBAI. :-) ]

;-)

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Going to GCC 3.0 is IMO the right way.
> 
> ...though be prepared to receive extremely bad and annoyed feedback
> from those of your customers doing heavy duty C++ development.
> 
> Here at DBAI, for example, we simply cannot use GCC 3.0 because it's
> an order of magnitude slower while generating larger and also slower
> binaries.  I don't know, though, what this means for KDE and other
> code you need to compile as part of your GNU/Linux distribution.

So, your advice for distributors would be to wait for GCC 3.1 - or use
a compiler taken from the GCC 3.1 branch ...

> Though, if Red Hat could contribute developer time to address this kind of
> problems on the GCC 3.0-branch, that would make a lot of sense I guess,
> for there *are* significant improvements in the C++ frontend per se which
> will be strongly appreciated by many customers.

... unless somebody improves the GCC 3.0 branch significantly?

Btw. what are exactly the problems you're facing with GCC 3.0?

Andreas
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