Did anyone notice GCC 3.2.2?

[Duncan]

Following a link from another topic It would seem that GCC 3.2.2 has been ported. Check out your local GG mirrors!

http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/amiga/ade/amiga/m68k/alpha/gcc/

The files are dated 2nd April so apparently no joke intended. How come this hasn't been made public???

Anyway, happy coding...
Duncan.

Wow, finally. Hope a PPC version will come too.

[bhoggett]

I think it still needs a fair amount of testing. Don't automatically assume that just because the last version (2.95.3) was stable yet still in the alpha section the same applies to all alpha releases.

It has been a subject discussed a bit on the GG mailing list, but I have to agree that I'm surprised no one has mentioned it elsewhere since.

[walter]

Thanks for pointing it out, Duncan.

I thought there was an intractable problem in porting GCC 3.x
to AmigaOS, due to the requirement for protected memory (???).

I wonder how bad it will screw up my Amithlon system (:-D). I
guess I should set up a new, segregated GG: and try it out!

[trgse]

<Quote>
I thought there was an intractable problem in porting GCC 3.x
to AmigaOS, due to the requirement for protected memory (???).
</Quote>

If I remember correctly the real problem was really that there was no ports of GCC to a 68k computer, so noone knew if it would work (and the first 3.x probably didn't work on 68k systems, just as there where known problems with ppc systems)

<Quote>
I wonder how bad it will screw up my Amithlon system (). I
guess I should set up a new, segregated GG: and try it out!
</Quote>

why? simply renmae the execs like this

gcc->gcc3
g++->g++3
etc.

you will then have to alter any makefiles to use gcc3 instead of gcc, but big deal.

[bhoggett]

trgse wrote:


I wonder how bad it will screw up my Amithlon system (). I guess I should set up a new, segregated GG: and try it out!
why? simply renmae the execs like this

gcc->gcc3
g++->g++3
etc.

you will then have to alter any makefiles to use gcc3 instead of gcc, but big deal.

Actually, if you d/l the gcc3_notes.tar.gz file from the same archive it mentions running gcc 2 and gcc 3 side by side, and the steps needed to get it working properly.