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
