From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 9 10:08:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01506 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA01494 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14433; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:07:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Alfred Perlstein cc: Phillip Salzman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newer gcc? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Phillip Salzman wrote: > > > > Has there been any thought to jumping to a newer version of gcc, > > > specifically egcs? > > > > Doesn't egcs require an ELF filetype? Currently many people > > are still a.out. I'm sure it will change in the future. > > Well i only brought this up again for 2 reasons, as i know it has been > discussed to death in the past, however with the move to ELF and perl5 i > thought... what the hell :) > > Anyhow: > > a) egcs is a bit more improved than gcc in terms of c++ support, and more > features/optimizations. > > b) i thought the move to elf was so that we _could_ better use the newer > GNU tools. > > The reason i was asking is that i may bmake it and stick it into my tree, > if i can produce a "release" build using it maybe people would show more > interest. This gets brought up about twice a year, forever. Please search the mail archives for endless rehashing of this old bone. There are very good reasons to *require* a certain amount of stability to FreeBSD's compiler, these reasons haven't changed a bit, and aren't likely to. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message