Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:56:44 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GCC Message-ID: <19980503205644.30330@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980503174423.2818J-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>; from Gerald Pfeifer on Sun, May 03, 1998 at 06:26:45PM %2B0200 References: <19980430041417.42994@nuxi.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980503174423.2818J-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 06:26:45PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > I was certainly not speaking of snapshots. EGCS _releases_ are > extremely well tested and solid. Maybe, but if you look at the mailing lists, there are tons of complains and bugs against 1.0.2. In fact, I can't even get it to compile under Solaris 2.6. GCC 2.8.1 does with no problem. > Guys like Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>, author of the "FAQ for g++ > and libg++", happen to disagree: > [EGCS 1.0.x] is considerably more stable than 2.8.1 and vastly Maybe under Linux, but I can only get 1 in 3 snap shots to even compile under FreeBSD, and I haven't gotten any since 1.0.1 to compile under Solaris with the stock `as', `ld' and SunPro C. (I think I tried using gcc too). Which underscores my problem with EGCS -- it isn't tested under near the number of machines as GCC. It has a big part of the Linux camp intertwined, and thus probably why it might be stable enough for RH 5.1. Of course the EGCS community is also sending a *lot* of time hacking EGCS so it would work the glibc2 stuff, rather than worry about the C++ compiler itself... > and there are already plans for an EGCS 1.1 release as well... I dare say there are plans for a 1.2 release as well.. Just as there are plans *somewhere* for a FreeBSD 4.0. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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