From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 03:44:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA28978 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:44:05 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA28935 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:43:56 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA26568; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 22:41:08 +1100 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 22:41:08 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199511281141.WAA26568@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: jmacd@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: gcc 2.1.7 (and libg++) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >It will probably be at least 4 to 6 months until we jump the band- I think that's too long. It would collide with the next release... I think 2.7 has some important improvements for C++, but 2.7.1 breaks something big. >wagon though. I guess we will want to get all of as/ld/cc upgraded >this time. Updating ld will be difficult. cc only requires `.weak' support in as. Perhaps ASM_WEAKEN_LABEL() could emit a stab instead of a `.weak' statement. I just deleted ASM_WEAKEN_LABEL() for 2.7.0. This may have broken the C++ feature that depends on weak symbols. Bruce