Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:50:43 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Message-ID: <199805260450.XAA11130@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199805260352.UAA18333@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "May 25, 98 08:52:18 pm"
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John Polstra said: > > BTW, what's you opinion of egcs? > > It seems to have frequent ups and downs. We have been using the > Feb. 21 snapshot for a fairly large C++ project that I'm involved > with, and we haven't had any show-stopper problems. But I believe > some of the other team members tried a later snapshot and ran into all > sorts of bugs. > > One thing I can say is that the template support is immeasurably > better than what was in gcc-2.7.2. I haven't tried gcc-2.8.1, but > I've heard that its C++ support is much improved over 2.7.2 as well. > I have had problems running kernels with the -current egcs code for the last few weeks. I believe that I have been able to build and run a kernel based upon earlier egcs snapshots (several months old.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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