From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 15:29:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB421542D for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:29:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id PAA02498; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:29:09 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Chuck Robey Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990228152909.E2170@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 06:04:41PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I keep on hearing about how we're losing because we don't have the 3 > month old latest feature With EGCS the issue isn't having the latest 3 mo. feature, but we have a totally BROKEN C++ compiler. The STL with it is broken, and it is so far from the ISO C++ standard, it really can't be called C++ any longer. > Every time I see a post that is one-sidedly aimed towards the latest > untested thing I'm working on the egcs 1.1.x branch. I wouldn't go near their HEAD branch for FreeBSD use. I distrust that code more than I do Micro$oft's. > Yes, let's try egcs. I want to do buildworlds/installworlds/new kernel > builds here with it for a while. What I have won't build kernels yet. I could hack our system Makefiles to use different compile options, but I don't like that approach. So I'm working on adding our compiler flags and such. > Could I install egcs out of ports, and do that testing? I want to do > that, if it would contribute. Last I tried, no. IMHO, we are a ways off, but we need to at least be working on it. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message