Re: [boost] Compiler status for GCC 3.3

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (gdr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-29 20:55:35

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

[...]

| But some of the problems are clearly GCC bugs. For example, all the
| ublas tests are failing with this message:
| 
| ...error: due to a defect in the G++ 3.2 ABI, G++ has assigned the
| same mangled name to two different types...

:-(

Indeed, a bug report in in order.

| This is happening on Apple, Linux, and Windows, so that bug report
| should go to GCC.
| 
| GCC 3.3 (and 3.2.x, too, I think) also has some pretty bad behavior as
| far as memory usage goes.

Proper memory management has always been a problem in GCC.  Sadly,
somehow it was considered a solved problem when a GC was added to the
compiler, I tend to think it was a bug but that is only me. 

-- Gaby