Re: [Sheflug] LONGER - SuSE 7.2 kernel source

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 17 Oct 2001 10:51 am, you wrote:

> Anyway, I'm thinking of trying gcc-3.01 next. Any words on this?

Apparently it miscompiles SMP kernels but is "OK" on uni-processor kernels. 
It's the default compiler for SPARC and HPPA IIRC. (Woo acronyms)

It's very strict at C++ and just about everything will fail to compile unless 
specifically modified (mainly because of discarding const qualifiers is now 
considered an error, and there is no default std namespace, you have to 
declare it with "using namespace std" ). The C++ standard library is much 
enhanced.

In my experience it generates larger executables and takes longer to do it. 
YMMV. The executables are also slower.
 
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