From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 5 12:49:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6DD15385 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from [128.130.111.10] (nunki [128.130.111.10]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA28711; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:49:07 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:49:06 +0100 (MET) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making -STABLE In-Reply-To: <20000105171318.A31285@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > "1.3. USERLAND CHANGES > --------------------- > > The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to GCC 2.95.2. > This gives users full ISO C++ support, and preliminary C9x support." ^^^^ This is not completely true yet, but we are quite close. ;-) > All we need is a bit of patience, the port was included only > because some other ports (like FlightGear) already depend on it. If you want to do serious C++ work, GCC 2.95 is the way to go -- 2.7.2 is seriously broken in many ways and also predates the ISO C++ standard. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message