Re: [alpha, hppa] GCC-4.3 as the default compilers for lenny?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:36:46AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>
> But unlike others that doesn't seems to care a lot about which
> compiler is default in lenny, I would be sad to not see gcc-4.3 our
> default compiler. It comes with a lot of enhanced warnings and error
> checking, that I've seen in action, and hence know to be worthwhile (the
> array bound checking e.g. is really nice). And the g++ strictness wrt
> headers is important to have, else code developed on Debian would need
> porting to work on other distributions. I believe Debian to be an
> excellent development platform, and we should not lag behind wrt stable
> development tools.
I mostly have a problem with the default gcc being behind on i386/amd64.
Most of our maintainers and users will be using that. Things might for
instance be broken with gcc 4.3 and nobody notices it.
Kurt
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