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Description of problem: The latest update to gcc on FC3 was to gcc-3.4.3-22.fc3.i386.rpm There should be a compat-gcc-3.4 for FC4 to mainatain capabilities for developers (particularly for C++). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compat-gcc-3.4.3-22.fc4.i386.rpm (is needed) How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Fedora Core can't include too many compilers, there were many packages dropped from Core already to Extras for size reasons. If anywhere, the extra compilers would belong to Extras, if anybody volunteers to maintain them. FC4 includes 3.2.3-RH compat-gcc on purpose. GCC 3.4.3-RH is ABI compatible with GCC 4.0.0-RH and uses (almost) the same C++ parser (recursive decent parser, not very permissive for non-compliant C++ source), while GCC 3.2.3-RH (and 3.3.x) included a different parser, much more permissive etc. and 3.2.3-RH is ABI incompatible with 3.4.3/4.0.0. Of course there are some differences between 3.4.x and 4.0.x parser, but they are fairly minor. The major difference between 3.4.x and 4.0.x is in the compiler middle-end, but that does not justify including 3.4.3 in FC4.