From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 9 03:48:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19034 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19029 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:48:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA24907; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 06:48:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) To: Alfred Perlstein cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: newer gcc? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Nov 1998 02:00:09 EST." Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 06:48:13 -0500 Message-ID: <24903.910612093@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote in message ID : > > Has there been any thought to jumping to a newer version of gcc, > specifically egcs? egcs is too fast a moving target for consideration at this point. Also, the quality varies too much from day to day, so even if we did include egcs, it would be a lot of work to find a stable release. I believe there is talk about moving to a later version of gcc, but I cannot see (and would oppose) a move to egcs at this point. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message