From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 25 21:51:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18620 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 21:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18612 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 21:51:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11130; Mon, 25 May 1998 23:50:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805260450.XAA11130@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning In-Reply-To: <199805260352.UAA18333@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "May 25, 98 08:52:18 pm" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:50:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra said: > > BTW, what's you opinion of egcs? > > It seems to have frequent ups and downs. We have been using the > Feb. 21 snapshot for a fairly large C++ project that I'm involved > with, and we haven't had any show-stopper problems. But I believe > some of the other team members tried a later snapshot and ran into all > sorts of bugs. > > One thing I can say is that the template support is immeasurably > better than what was in gcc-2.7.2. I haven't tried gcc-2.8.1, but > I've heard that its C++ support is much improved over 2.7.2 as well. > I have had problems running kernels with the -current egcs code for the last few weeks. I believe that I have been able to build and run a kernel based upon earlier egcs snapshots (several months old.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message