gcc 4?

[Mario Splivalo]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 09:56 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > Just I like to confirm that Ubuntu has the kernel compiled with a
> > different GCC version of the one that is installed. Is so, why?
> 
> The wiki has a brief comment about the fact that kernel is compiled
> with gcc-3.4 while gcc-4 is available:
> 
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LinuxKernelRoadmap
> 
> [2005-07-22]
> 
> The compiler situation is more complex than expected. We can't switch
> to 4.0 and apparently there is some miscompilation with 3.4. We might
> have to revert to 3.3 for all arches other than ppc64 and iseries
> (known to work).
> 
> [2005-07-28]
> 
> All arches have been verified to be ok with gcc-3.4. We will stay with
> 3.4 for breezy. Switching to 4.0 brings no real advantages.

If that is so, why is then the default compiler in Breezy gcc-4.0, why
are all packages recompilled with gcc-4.0? I had troubles (linvcs,
vmware modules - not something that was unsolveable, but still!) with
gcc-4.0 beeing the default compiler.

Could you say few more informational words on why is gcc 4.0 default
compiler?

	Mike
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