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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:33:05 +0100 (MET)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gcc-2.7.1
Message-ID:  <199511191333.OAA01301@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951118215139.9575A-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 18, 95 09:54:18 pm

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It seems that Chuck Robey said:
> I guess I'm more interested in the bugfixes.  As I remember, there was 
> one class of bug that was a major deciding factor in not moving to 
> gcc-2.7.0, but I don't recall what it was (I'm pretty nearly useless at 
> machine language, or following compiler output by reading it).

I don't recall either  but I know that  C++  was broken (try  running groff
compiled with 2.7.0 !). There were register allocation bugs too I think.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 19 01:34:03 MET 1995



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