From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 14 11:25:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13104 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13093 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:25:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mestery@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16067; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:24:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma016045; Fri, 14 Aug 98 13:24:30 -0500 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA28909; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:23:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:23:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery To: Steve Passe cc: Alfred Perlstein , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new compiler? In-Reply-To: <199808141731.LAA06318@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> 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 Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Steve Passe wrote: > We have a fairly complex system running with 2.2.6, FreeBSD pthreads and > g++28. We tried both the standard compiler and egcs, but neither would > compile the complete project, let alone run. The biggest problem is in > the area of c++ templates, g++28 will eat things the other 2 barfed on. > We had to make one patch to gcc28 b4 building, and turn on the > "GCC28_THREAD_AWARE" define in libc_r to fix the problem with dynamic > chain handling. After this exceptions seem to work properly. > > My vote would be for gcc28. > My reason's for wanting gcc-2.8.1 also lie along these lines, as we are using a cross development environment at work that is complex and utilizes a mix of gcc-2.8.1 front end and back-end linker/assembler from WRS, targeting arm-wrs-vxworks. It works quite well, and we have no problems with the compiler so far. -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Storage Networking Group "I'll take what you're willing to give, and I'll teach myself to live, with a walk-on part of a background shot from a movie I'm not in." - Blink 182, "Apple Shampoo" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message