Haiku News ~ Print: #00890 Test Version of GCC 2.95.3 Ready For You.

Test Version of GCC 2.95.3 Ready For You.

Aug 15, 2004 16:39 UTC, by Chris Simmons, Senior Journalist.
From the march, march, march department...

Oliver Tappe reports on the OpenBeOS Mailing List that a new test version of the GCC compiler, ported to Haiku/OpenBeOS, is ready for broader testing.

Quoting Oliver, in part:

So it'd be great if people interested would test this version and tell me where it fails (or improves upon gnupro >:o). Information about this compiler's influence on performance and/or memory footprint of applications is highly appreciated, too!

The impression I've got so far from my own testing is that gcc-2.95.3 is quite a bit slower than the versions based on gnupro but that it crashes less often and generates smaller code.

I haven't done any performance comparisons yet, as my first target is correctness. Trying to compile the haiku-source exhibits a couple of new warnings and four new errors, so there's still some more work to do...

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