From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 15:33: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.154.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180A615316 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA28257; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:32:16 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:32:16 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Chuck Robey , "David O'Brien" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc In-Reply-To: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> 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 Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Please keep in mind that if, in our haste, we import a compiler that > > puts instability into FreeBSD, then we've drunk poison. The feature > > A legit concern, but also realize that all of us are talking about > 4.0 here - the new compiler would be an issue we'd have up to a full > year on before the product it's in goes mainstream. If that's not enough > time to work out the compiler issues after switching, I can't imagine > when we WILL have a better time to try and do this then. Progress > entails some pain, and if we're unwilling to suffer any at all then > progress ceases entirely. My 2cents...waiting a year before it goes mainstream is really going to hurt things. There appear to be more and more projects coming out that are relying on features existent in the C++ in egcs that gcc can't support. MICO (corba) is one of them...KDE appears to be more towards it with some of its applications... Bringing it into 4.0-CURRENT is great, and debugging it there, but getting it rolled into the 3.x tree should, IMHO, be considered long before 4.x gets released... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message