From kde-devel  Mon Jun 18 22:31:24 2001
From: StarTux <matthew () psychohorse ! com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:31:24 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE and Gcc 3.0
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Here is the homepage on GNU that mentions the release.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/

Here is the caveats:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-3.0/caveats.html

And the bug page:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html#known

You could try writing to Richard, just remember its GNU/Linux...I forgot
to mention that to him once...

Matt

--
"The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves."

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:

>    Hi!
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:26:18PM +0200, Nils Holland wrote:
> > On Monday 18 June 2001 20:37, Jesper Pedersen wrote:
> > > On Monday 18 June 2001 20:24, Nils Holland wrote:
> > > > On Monday 18 June 2001 19:56, Mathieu Chouinard wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > Does anybody have compiled KDE 2.2alpha2 with GCC 3.0?
> > > > > Mathieu
> > > >
> > > > No, but as far as I am informed, GCC 3 is not able to properly compile
> > > > "real world code" like KDE at the moment. I wonder if the GCC 3 version
> > > > that will eventually be released will be able to do this. Originally, the
> > > > GCC folks wanted to get 3.0 out of the door in the first half of this
> > > > year, but from what I have heard from various people (and from what I
> > > > have read on their website in their release-criteria), I think they're
> > > > not quite there yet...
> > > >
> > > > Greetings
> > > > Nils
> > >
> > > GCC-3.0 was released today.
> >
> > Ok. I don't see an announcement on http://gcc.gnu.org, but I believe you ;-).
> > Seems that it's time to put it on my test-machine, then. I think that it
> > should not yet be installed on my normal workstations. When one reads the
> > release-criteria on the GCC website, it seems as if GCC 3 should be able to
> > do exactly the same as 2.9.x, only better. Unluckily, since it does not
> > compile all of KDE correctly (and also has problems with other things, as I
> > have heard) this is not the case. So - who's responsible for making it
> > eventually work? Will we have to wait for a maintenance release from the GCC
> > 3 branch, or will the KDE developers make their code work with GCC 3?
>
> Well, my view of this is that the way gcc3 breaks aRts (by miscompiling code
> using virtual inheritance) makes it extremely unlikely that working around
> the issue by changing the aRts code is a good idea (it might even be
> completely impossible). It's also a regression against previous versions of
> GCC (i.e. 2.95.2 compiles virtual inheritance just fine). The bug is reported
> to the gcc developers, as
>
>   c++/3145: virtual inheritance still creates wrong code
>
> and I hope that it will get fixed there soon.
>
>    Cu... Stefan
> --
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>      KDE Developer, project infos at http://space.twc.de/~stefan/kde *-
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