GCC 4

Posted Jan 17, 2005 21:46 UTC (Mon) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498)
In reply to: GCC 4 by steven97
Parent article: Fedora Core 4 plans announced

In addition, it is easier for binary based distro's to use the latest and greatest comilers since workarounds that are needed for building various packages are easily masked from everyone using those binaries. For source driven distro's like Gentoo however, the quality of the compiler is essential to the everyday health of the system, as everything is build by the user and unless the workarounds are already integrated into the build scripts, a newer compiler can wreak absolute havoc. Hence, gentoo, which is for the most part a bleeding edge distro, still uses the gcc-3.3 line of compilers by default for the 32-bit x86 arch.