Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Phillip Salzman <psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newer gcc? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811091304440.10145-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811091003040.22497-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net>
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > 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. This gets brought up about twice a year, forever. Please search the mail archives for endless rehashing of this old bone. There are very good reasons to *require* a certain amount of stability to FreeBSD's compiler, these reasons haven't changed a bit, and aren't likely to. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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