GCC 4

Posted Jan 22, 2005 12:42 UTC (Sat) by danielos (guest, #6053)
In reply to: GCC 4 by steven97
Parent article: Fedora Core 4 plans announced

Something user (not programmer) use to do is compiling the kernel, and there are a number of regression in this field that make gcc 3.3 better (and 2.95 better than 3.3). But this do not matter: as you said it's a beta.

What really could make think break is C++ changes that could break source compatibility: a lot of good work have be done it this area but there are some bug outstanding that, IMO, should be fixed for 4.0.0 release and are postponed for 4.1 instead. I repeat, IMO this policy is not very good, also, given the good work gcc developer are doing in these day for bug fixing, I guess that fix some parser bugs is not a so hard work. But steering comite state this changes are not possible now.

I use 4.0 myself, I don't see a lot advance. GCC 4.0 is the base architecture for a better optimization but a small part of this is done.