From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 26 15:12:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02782 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:12:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02773 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA18555; Tue, 26 May 1998 22:12:33 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA29678; Wed, 27 May 1998 00:12:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980527001230.50907@follo.net> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:12:30 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Mike Smith Cc: "John S. Dyson" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning References: <19980526194334.44185@follo.net> <199805261836.LAA00466@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199805261836.LAA00466@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:36:54AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:36:54AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:59:52AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > I really don't think that we would want to also get into compiler > > > support issues. Tool support issues are complex enough. I can imagine > > > that egcs (could) be stable enough for our c++ compiler, but am much > > > less confident of it being our default c compiler. > > > > Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible. It seems to > > be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc. > > How much of the world will build with it? Very little without custom setup, I suspect. TenDRA is (in the default mode) a pure ANSI compiler, with exact checking against the ANSI API. I think making it support e.g. 'long long' would need modifications of the frontend. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message