From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 9 14:55:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25066 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@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 OAA25061 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d96-072.orchard2.ucdavis.edu [169.237.96.72]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA03369; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05224; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 21:55:30 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19980909145530.B2403@nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:55:30 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Doug Rabson , John Birrell Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler problems with gcc-2.7.2.1 Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199809032336.JAA04070@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 08:17:44AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-19980804-SNAP 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It would be a good idea to upgrade to a modern compiler after the release. > I suspect that gcc-2.8.x will be more acceptable for most people. Why? If you listen to the EGCS people, while g++28 is a much better C++ compiler than g++27, it still has bugs that are fixed in EGCS. >From coding this weekend, I do know that EGCS 1.1.1 (aka 1.1a) works better all around with the STL. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message