Re: gcc include strangeness

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:10:34PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 
>  Is gcc 3.x already stable enough to be used by people not directly
> involved in gcc development?  More specifically for MIPS/Linux and
> i386/Linux, for both the kernel and the userland?  I'm told it is not.

I'm reading about gcc 3.x code generation bugs every now and then,
but so far I did not hit any of them.
I would prefer gcc 2.95.x though, if I only could get it
to work on MIPS.

>  Gcc 2.95.x as distributed certainly doesn't work.  With a set of patches
> it appears rock solid.  For MIPS/Linux I'm using it for over two years for
> both the kernel and the userland.  The last time I found bug and needed to
> apply a fix to gcc 2.95.3 for MIPS/Linux was in April 2001. 

I would certainly be interested in getting my hands on those
patches. Do you mind if I ask why they did not go into
gcc-2_95-branch CVS?


Regards,
Johannes