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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: A bit off topic: GCC 2.8???
In-Reply-To: <199708181820.MAA02086@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Aug 18, 97 12:20:01 pm"
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:05:41 -0500 (EST)
Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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> > 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.
> 
The egcs project appears to be a spin-off, and looks like they are moving
forward quickly.  A contributor has already proposed major improvement to the
register allocation (spill) scheme.

John