Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:36:28 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> To: green@unixhelp.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <99Mar1.112518est.40420@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> wrote: [use cc1-2.7.2.1 and ECGS cc1plus] > we get to keep >(for now) the stable, reliable, C compiler we've been depending on for years. With all the well-known idiosyncrasies that we've been working around for years. > Of >course, in the long run, once stability is proven, switching to entirely EGCS >would make sense. There's a catch-22 here: We can't prove the stability of EGCS until we start using it. Even if we don't make EGCS the base compiler, we need a standard documented mechanism for doing `make world' with EGCS as well as agreement that bug reports using ECGS will be considered. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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