Why GCC 4?

[Julio Biason]

On 3/13/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <mrd at alkemio.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:47:33AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I've wondered about this for a while. How come Ubuntu is compiled with
> > gcc 4? Is there a specific technical advantage to doing this?
>
> Is there a specific technical advantage not to?

Hm... 3.x has years of field evaluation and bug fixing? :)

As far as I know, 4.x is more standards-compliant, which is a good
thing. Several programs can't compile against 4.x, due some way
optimizations are done now (where it seems is the greatest point of
4.x, although isn't fully explored yet).

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Julio Biason <julio.biason at gmail.com>