From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 16:38:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6E515005 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 16:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40420>; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:25:18 +1100 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:36:28 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: gcc To: green@unixhelp.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <99Mar1.112518est.40420@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Feldman 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