From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 11: 9:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (mail1.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F68C15272 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-76-54.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.76.54]) by mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA25812 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:08:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from wghicks (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA69147 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:58:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199902281858.NAA69147@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:58:52 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [fwd to -current] > Hi Chuck, > > I must agree with your concerns about the bleeding-edge nature of > EGCS. At Glenayre we've tried several times to move "up" to EGCS > for our embedded development efforts, only to beat a hasty retreat > back to GCC because of code generation and execution bugs in the > compiler. > > Things are improving but I'd be extremely wary of a wholesale shift > to EGCS just now. > > As an interesting side note, Joel Sherrill of the RTEMS project is a > director of the EGCS project; Even RTEMS patches the EGCS distribution (!) > > Since RTEMS is using networking code from FreeBSD, perhaps he might > be a good contact for those maintaining the FreeBSD compiler? Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message