gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 7 02:06:00 GMT 2011


On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 20:40 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> As the subject says, shouldn't we remove gcc3 from the distro finally?
> We have 3 mingw compilers and gcc4 for Cygwin.  What reason is left
> to stick to gcc 3?

Based on Dave's response, only GDC.  Therefore, I would say that once
he's ready to ship a GDC-enabled gcc-4.5+, then gcc3 can and should go,
at which point gcc4 can become gcc and the -4 suffixes can be dropped.


Yaakov




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