Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:30:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: benedict@echonyc.com (Snob Art Genre) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egcs and -stable Message-ID: <199802172330.QAA07487@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980217174841.28572A-100000@echonyc.com> from "Snob Art Genre" at Feb 17, 98 05:49:33 pm
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> > It complains (with good reason) about some variable shadowing, but
> > otherwise seems to work.
>
> What is that?
int var = 5;
foo()
{
int var; /* shadows global declaration*/
}
Shadowing generally means that you may be trying to get something and end
up getting something entirely different.
> > My problem with egcs stems from broken threaded exception handling
> > in their c++ implementation.
>
> It's a good thing the system is written in C!
Sure, but that's not a good enough reason to install a C++ that
doesn't work with a C that does, instead of having both work.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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