From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 17 15:09:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14260 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13960 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:08:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01406; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:46:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd001342; Tue Feb 17 15:46:35 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05239; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:46:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802172246.PAA05239@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: egcs and -stable To: benedict@echonyc.com Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:46:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Snob Art Genre" at Feb 17, 98 05:32:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The FSF 2.8.0 is better than the Cygnus 2.8.0. > > So I should use gcc28 in ports/lang instead of egcs? OK . . . how well > will that work as my system compiler? Does it work for making the world? > How about the kernel? Etc. It complains (with good reason) about some variable shadowing, but otherwise seems to work. I used the one built via "configure", and not the port; your mileage may vary. My problem with egcs stems from broken threaded exception handling in their c++ implementation. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message