Re: GCC3

On 7/1/05, Martin Reindl <[email protected]> wrote:
> William Ahern <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Are there plans to move the alpha arch to GCC3? I'm sorely missing new
> > C99 features like compound literals and named member initialization. I
> > have quite a bit of code written at work which I am now allowed to
> > release publicly--not OpenBSD specific, though--but much of it won't
> > compile without the above features.
> 
> You can still install and use an newer gcc from ports.
> 
> 

Why isn't it possible on amd64? I mean, why isn't it possible to
compile gcc 3.4 or even 4.0 from ports on amd64?