From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 16 21:17:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA09796 for current-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@libya-196.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA09725; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:16:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA02660; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:17:46 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:17:45 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "John S. Dyson" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium optimizations In-Reply-To: <199712170437.XAA01802@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > I also have been lurking, and frankly the EGCS compiler is a fantastic > improvement. There is a LONG LONG way to go before the compiler will > be ready for us (but considering the progress that they have been making, It's quite nice to see some progress on gcc, in fact for a while I wondered if 2.7.x was the last release of gcc. Guess not ;-) [...] > We should do better to support the effort, and optionally offer the EGCS > compiler as a port. My guess is that it won't be ready to be the 3.0-RELEASE > default compiler. The response(s) I got to my "I'm a newbie, anyone know about this problem" was basically met with "well no FreeBSD developers have contacted us, and if they did we'd accept/commit/whatever some changes..". - alex