On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:40:39PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> > > >But a little question, the default gcc seems to be 2.95.3
> > > >(/usr/bin/gcc) Also there seems to be version 3.3.4
> > > >(/usr/pkg/gcc3/bin/gcc). Suggestions, should I use the 3.3.4 as
> > > >default? I think some programs from the pkgsrc used the newer
> > > >version...
> > >=20
> > > depends on your needs. if you want to go into production, i'd stick
> > > with 2.95.
> > 
> > on sparc64, *anything* is better than 2.95, especially true for C++.
> 
> that might be/is true unless you get into trouble you don't have with 2.95 -- and that's the point for the production environment. i (personally) don't care whether 3.3.x optimizes the code a little better for 2% better performance of the resulting binary -- stability rulez ;)

The problem with 2.95 is that it can generate incorrect code and that
is more serious then poor optimization.

	Andrey