From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 8 10:16:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3503914CB9; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA06748; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:14:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:14:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Doug Rabson , current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vtable thunks with egcs In-Reply-To: <19990406054117.A26361@nuxi.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 Tue, 6 Apr 1999, David O'Brien wrote: # > I'm assuming that the default for egcs uses vtable thunks instead of # > offsets in the vtable to handle multiple inheritance. # # At the moment, yes. # # > It occurred to me that since this changes the C++ calling convention, # > we have to bump the major version number of all c++ libraries, # > particularly the ones in ports. # # Not only that, but the differences in exceptions, rtti, etc... it is well # known that you can't even use C++ libs compiled with g++ 2.8.{0,1} with # EGCS. # # Guess Steve is in for some fun when he sees just how broken Ports are # with EGCS. ;-) The one I'm fretting over right now is emacs. I haven't quite figured out why, but invoking it brings up the window, but never displays anything in the window. Using a version built with the old compiler doesn't seem to make any difference. :( -steve # -- # -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) # # P.S. There is a problem with bootstraping right now that causes something # not to be compiled by EGCS that needs to be. I'm working on this right # now... so we might not want to change any ports just yet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message