From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 9 12:55:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19646 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19606 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.127]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08112; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:54:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01748; Sat, 9 May 1998 12:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805091954.MAA01748@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: gcc quandry In-Reply-To: <3554780D.2B8E746E@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "May 9, 98 09:36:45 am" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@tera.tera.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kline@thought.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Wes Peters: > Gary Kline wrote: > > One solution would be up upgrade to gcc 2.8.X, but > > the note about this latest rev being buggy have > > me a bit concerned.... esp'ly since I frequency > > mod my kernel. > > > > Has anybody seen significant bugs with the latest > > gcc? > > No, but there are some caveats. The exception code in 2.8.1 still isn't > world-class, though it is better than 2.7.x by a long shot. Also, you > didn't mention if you tried to compile the code without optimization, > etc. Hm. In fact I did both optimized and non-opt'd on my P90. -g and non -g. Because the code isn't exactly the same on the Sun (no SoundBlaster on the Sparc) I can't be 100%; only about 97%. > > Since you can install gcc-2.8.x in /usr/local and not conflict with the > standard compiler or any other installation, you have little to lose > (other than a few megs of disk space) in trying the newer compiler. I was wondering about this. It's been a couple years since I ported//installed gcc by hand so I am wondering what dependencies there are. If I install gcc-2.8.1 in /usr/local, will there be conflicts with the gcc headers? I suppose if I run into hassles I can restore this from tape; but better to ask beforre jumping :-) > You may want to try 'egcs' as well, although it looks like the 1.1.x > releases are going to be much better on FreeBSD. > I'm looking forward to checking out all the new tools ... thanks for your help, gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message