Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:11:50 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902282011001.20842-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <99Mar1.112526est.40386@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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. All gcc/cc do is act as a front-end to cc1/cc1obj/cc1plus. Hence, a second cc for egcs could be used, or maybe using a cc -egcs flag, etc. > > Peter > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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