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Anyone been using GCC 4.0 or greater? Any luck? What have your experiences been like with it? What about with AMD64, any luck/problems?
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Gcc 4.*
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I have used it to make programs for the CS class I am currently taking and so far its been kind to me. Really I just keep coding like I always have for both GCC 3.XX and I get the same types of results.
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What about for compiling your system though?
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I am still using 3.something.
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MRD said:
I know. That's why I was asking if anyone has used it and what their experiences with it were. I hear it is suppose to be real nice.
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What makes 4.* better than 3.*?
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Here's a review:
http://www.coyotegulch.com/reviews/gcc4/
http://www.coyotegulch.com/reviews/gcc4/
gcc4 is an improvement. It has better C++ standards compatibility and a better optimizer
However, it's not a good general compiler for your system since it has an incompatible ABI to gcc3. Wait until your distro comes as gcc4 compiled and the kernel at least grudgingly admits gcc4 is barely ok and not totally unsupported.
However, it's not a good general compiler for your system since it has an incompatible ABI to gcc3. Wait until your distro comes as gcc4 compiled and the kernel at least grudgingly admits gcc4 is barely ok and not totally unsupported.
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Personally, I'm waiting for 4.1. They merged tree-SSA with the mainline for 3.0 which added a new way of optimizing. It should allow for better optimization, but still needs some work to get there. Hopefully 4.1 will have a nice speed improvement (and hopefully by then most of the old code out there that doesn't work with 4.0 will have patches out for it).
So it has a better optimization framework, it doesn't necessarily optimize better right now.
So it has a better optimization framework, it doesn't necessarily optimize better right now.
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I had run GCC 4.x before it was actually released when I was trying LFS, but I had to switch back to 3.4.x because it kept giving me errors. Arch uses 4.0.2 by default now, and it seems to be working fine for the small amount of compiling I have done.
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i use gcc4 as my main compiler . No problems
