From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 9 16:49:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11428 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zone.syracuse.net (zone.syracuse.net [205.232.47.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11421 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by zone.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA03643; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:45:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:45:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@zone.syracuse.net To: "David O'Brien" cc: Doug Rabson , John Birrell , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler problems with gcc-2.7.2.1 In-Reply-To: <19980909145530.B2403@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, well I happen to try EGCS too, 1.1b most lately. It _DOES_ seem to have some bad optimization bugs, and last time I tried EGCS( with PGCC) to compile a kernel, it choked on good code 2.7.2.1 worked with. However the instabilities I will need to test, which won't happen till I get a gdb that handles the new ELF coredumps. -Brian Feldman On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message