From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 9 07:05:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13416 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:05:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net [206.64.4.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13397 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA22513; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:07:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:07:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net To: Phillip Salzman cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newer gcc? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Phillip Salzman wrote: > > Has there been any thought to jumping to a newer version of gcc, > > specifically egcs? > > Doesn't egcs require an ELF filetype? Currently many people > are still a.out. I'm sure it will change in the future. Well i only brought this up again for 2 reasons, as i know it has been discussed to death in the past, however with the move to ELF and perl5 i thought... what the hell :) Anyhow: a) egcs is a bit more improved than gcc in terms of c++ support, and more features/optimizations. b) i thought the move to elf was so that we _could_ better use the newer GNU tools. The reason i was asking is that i may bmake it and stick it into my tree, if i can produce a "release" build using it maybe people would show more interest. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message