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Re: delivery on GCC 3.3 (was Re: Precompiled Headers and gcc 3.3)

Jeff Harrell wrote:
| I have a tangential question that I haven't heard addressed yet. Last
| year during WWDC, the point was hammered home that it wasn't a good
| idea to deliver products built with GCC 3.1 until Jaguar shipped. Is
| this as true now as it was then? I would imagine that the difference
| between GCC 2 and GCC 3 was much more significant than between 3.1 and
| 3.3, but does that mean it's okay to build deliverable products with
| the new compiler?

Gcc 3.3 is a beta release. I wouldn't deliver *anything* based on a beta release.

| ... But I'm not building any products with 3.3 right now.
|
| Is this the correct policy? Or is GCC 3.3 ready for prime time?

If Apple considered it ready for prime time, it wouldn't be a beta.

Glen Fisher
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