Status of GCC 4.4 on Debian

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I <a href = "http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-testing">started
testing GCC 4.4</a> ten days ago and the results are in.  In total, I filed
28 new bugs and ran into 7 known issues.  More than half of the bugs I
filed have already been fixed and many of those that are still open have
already received some attention (debugging, suggested patches).  I sent a
<a href = "http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-09/msg00258.html">complete report
to the GCC list</a>, although I forgot to mention that I set optimization
to <tt>-O3</tt> to catch more problems.

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I know that it's quite popular to complain about GCC, but I'd say that most
impressions people have about the GCC community no longer hold true.  The
GCC community is very active these days, bugs tend to get a lot of
attention and there are major infrastructure changes underway to improve
the compiler.

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