Gcc 4.3

[Lorenzo Villani]

Carlo Dapor wrote:
> Hmm, gcc 4.3 is not widely used yet.
It seems that some distributions will do the switch in their next release
(like Fedora)

> 
> Personally, I'd wait for gcc 4.3.1 at least before porting D to it.
> Gcc always introduces new functionality, which may come with side-effects,
> no offence intended.
> 
> If you start using it, you will discover some of these side-effects and
> help fixing them.
> 
> Gcc 4.2.x has been around for a while, it is installed on many systems.
> FreeBSD 7.0, released 2 weeks ago, for instance, upgraded their gcc from
> 3.4.6 to 4.2.1.
> 
> Among the primary targets I see gcc 4.0.x (if at all) and gcc 4.2.x for
> porting D1 and possibly D2. This is already in progress.
> But then, I am not active in it, so I can stop speculating here.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Carlo

Maybe I can just try to port the code to gcc 4.3 by myself then send back
the code to David. However I don't know anything about the GCC internals,
so it can take a very loooong time :D