From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 3 20:57:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07797 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 20:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07776 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 20:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id DAA13349; Mon, 4 May 1998 03:56:44 GMT Message-ID: <19980503205644.30330@nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:56:44 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GCC Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19980430041417.42994@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Gerald Pfeifer on Sun, May 03, 1998 at 06:26:45PM +0200 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 , 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