Subject: Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Status - Slip
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Date: 2005-02-23 22:06:34 GMT (3 years, 33 weeks, 1 day, 2 hours and 10 minutes ago)
Looking at the overlap of the FC4 schedule with the GCC 4.0 schedule, it appears that shipping GCC 4.0 in FC4 has become viable. In order to avoid a large duplication of bandwidth by rebuilding with GCC 4.0 between test releases, Fedora Core 4 Test 1 has now slipped two weeks to allow for integration of a GCC 4.0 snapshot, and rebuilds against it. Fedora Core 4 Test 1 is now scheduled for March 14; the schedule at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ will be updated shortly. Quick FAQs: - Is GCC 4.0 released yet? No. It's likely to be released around mid-April. - Does that mean Fedora Core 4 will ship with a pre-release compiler? We're not *that* crazy. If GCC 4.0 is delayed, we will either revert, or slip. - What's so cool about GCC 4.0? GCC 4.0 includes: - new intermediate languages that allow for new/better optimizations http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/ As part of this, this allows for better compile and run-time memory checking and overflow protection. - better and more complete Java support - Fortran 95 support - Is GCC 4.0 ABI compatbile with GCC-3.4.x? - For C/C++, yes. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list <at> redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list