On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
This lead me to another thought: when will GPC be stable enough to include it in main gcc-3.0.x (or later) distribution? (I guess this might help the compiler be more wide spread, as happened wiht g77 ...)
Yes, probably. Though it's not really a question of stability. In fact, I suppose a 3.0 based GPC will at first be less stable than a 2.8.1 or 2.95.x based one because a few new problems will surely appear and will have to be found and fixed first.
The main difference between the GCC versions from our POV is mainly a number of changed interfaces which means a lot of work to adopt GPC (and without too much immediate effect on the quality of GPC).
That's why it's not been on the top of our priorities, but of course, it will be done in due cuorse ...
Just as well. All the distrubutions listed on www.distrowatch.com have some variation of gcc-2.9 something as the default compiler. On the Slackware site, gcc-3.0.2 is included in the current tree "for testing purposes only". The latest glibc, 2.2.4, says you can't use gcc-3 to compile it. (If you override it you get a "not supported" message). So if GPC were included today you'd be right in the middle of GCC vs GCC problems.
Russ