Ticket #39 (new enhancement)
Upgrade to newer GCC versions ?
| Reported by: | debrouxl | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | Version 1.00 |
| Component: | project | Version: | 0.96 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
The patchset against GCC is stuck at GCC 4.1.2.
Upgrading to GCC 4.3 or 4.4 series should bring more, better warnings and better optimization capabilities (e.g. more powerful and more stable interprocedural optimization capabilities).
In the previous paragraph, I'm writing should instead of would, because the GCC 3.3 -> 4.0/4.1 upgrade brought pessimizations of its own (e.g. generation of larger&slower code when dealing with postincremented pointers). Judging by the GCC Bugzilla, GCC 4.2+ are very far from being blame-free wrt. pessimizations as well...
Needless to say, upgrading the patchset is a fairly hard task, and requires LOTS of testing.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by godzil
I wanted to write 4.2.0 not 4.0 and I was even wrong: It seems that the last GPLv2 version is the 4.2.1

I'm not fond of the licence change of recent GCC (GCC <=4.0 are GPLv2 and later one are GPLv3)