Building the Whole Debian Archive with GCC 4.1

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Mar 2006 21:15 UTC, submitted by anonymous

Over the last two weeks, Debian developer Martin Michlmayr compiled the whole Debian archive on a quad-core MIPS machine donated by Broadcom using GCC 4.1. The aim was to find problems in GCC 4.1 itself and bugs in free software projects exhibited by GCC's increased standards conformance (in particular regarding C++ code). Read more for the details.

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typo in the header

by sequethin on Tue 28th Mar 2006 21:32 UTC

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2005-07-06

pretty sure that should say "Building the Whole Debian...."

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RE: typo in the header

by korpenkraxar on Tue 28th Mar 2006 21:47 UTC in reply to "typo in the header"

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2005-09-10

nope, it should actually read "the Ghoul Debian" ;-)

Edited 2006-03-28 21:47

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Nice

by dikatlon on Tue 28th Mar 2006 22:10 UTC

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2005-07-08

I like this, it shows how powerful OSS is.
Sometimes you think that, "heey what's up with the devs - are they just creating bells and whistles?"; wooah this is nice indeed.

Edited 2006-03-28 22:10

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speedy enhancement

by netpython on Wed 29th Mar 2006 07:29 UTC

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2005-07-06

I�m recompiling everything with my own optimalisation flags on Ubuntu too,for fun.At least i get some 64-bit packages of otherwise 32-bit packages.

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This is wonderful

by ishmal on Wed 29th Mar 2006 11:37 UTC

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2005-11-11

The more warnings and errors that the compiler can generate, the better. My old CS prof once said, "If you are lucky, it won't compile." Developers should always use -Wall, and pay attention to the results. When you work off the warnings, you will feel a lot better. And you will be surprised how many potential bugs you will find.

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RE: This is wonderful

by ameasures on Wed 29th Mar 2006 12:50 UTC in reply to "This is wonderful"

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2006-01-09

--Developers should always use -Wall, and pay attention to the results.

Quite so, I use the Wall flag together with the pedantic flags. Clean code is both portable and reusable. It also advances my understanding of the language (together with peer estimations of my skills).

The point about new checks generating warnings rather than errors has some validity though perhaps not every time.

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Broadcom?

by Nathan O. on Wed 29th Mar 2006 15:14 UTC