From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 18 11:20:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07569 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07560 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02086; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:20:01 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:20:01 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708181820.MAA02086@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mikael Karpberg Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A bit off topic: GCC 2.8??? In-Reply-To: <199708160900.LAA00307@ocean.campus.luth.se> References: <199708160900.LAA00307@ocean.campus.luth.se> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm interested in using exceptions and other final standard C++ thingies, > and I'm therefor waiting for g++ 2.8.x to show up. It's not in FreeBSD yet, > but is it out there somewhere? Check out the gnu newsgroups on Usenet. Basically, the FSF is getting beat up by some folks who think they should make a release, since templates and exceptions are broken. Even the Cygnus folks are wondering why they don't make a release, since it makes their job harder to synchronize up with the FSF codes. Nate