Re: [RFC] QEMU KVM target -> Anthony

Dâniel Fraga
2007-03-18T20:53:55Z

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:51:47 -0500
Anthony Liguori <anthony-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> You really should use gcc3. You'll have a much better user
> experience and honestly it's more useful to have the ability to run
> -no-kvm to troubleshoot.
>
> Is there a particular reason why gcc3 isn't available to you?

I like to have only the latest versions of software installed
here. For me, it doesn't make sense to use gcc3 only to be able to
compile qemu, since I'll not use it on any other software.

Well, to be honest, I think that qemu author should have
migrated to gcc4. I can't understand why someone still uses gcc3 for
development. I mean, the author could take a weekend and fix all the
code to compile with gcc4. Is it so hard? I think it's the natural order
of things.

I think it's easier for the qemu author to port his code to
gcc4 instead of forcing the entire world to install an obsolete
compiler like gcc3 just to compile his code.

We should get rid of old things, as fast as possible. Gcc3 has
no future, so why keep using it?

Besides that, gcc4 offers a lot of options that gcc3
doesn't. It's faster, I can use its vectorizer and optimizes better the
code. If it takes too long, we'll have gcc 4.3 and qemu will be still
requiring gcc3. Don't you think it's absurd?

Thank you!