Peter Slegg wrote:
I was thinking ahead to what might be done once a release of GCC 4 is ready.
The only problem may be about static libraries (such as zlib, libpng...). They may not be compatible across multiple compilers. However, the binary compatibility of the C language is quite simple. In recent versions of GCC 4, I tried to keep the settings close to GCC 2.95, so I think there is no binary incompatibility (and if there are some, we have to clearly identify them, make simple testcases, and fix them). However, there is probably binary incompatibility issues with C++, but I don't think it is very important because there are not very much C++ libraries.
About packages providing only executables (tar, coreutils...): no problem, just compile them with the new compiler, anyone will be able to use the resulting software.
So let's go ahead ! -- Vincent Rivière