From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 17 15:47:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23808 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:47:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23422 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:45:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25621; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:30:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd025599; Tue Feb 17 16:30:06 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07487; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:30:03 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802172330.QAA07487@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: egcs and -stable To: benedict@echonyc.com (Snob Art Genre) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:30:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Snob Art Genre" at Feb 17, 98 05:49:33 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 > > 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 --- 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