From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 16 02:24:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA14854 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 02:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA14826 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 02:23:57 -0700 (PDT) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 4577 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Aug 1997 09:23:53 +0000 (GMT) To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A bit off topic: GCC 2.8??? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:00:41 +0200 (CEST)" References: <199708160900.LAA00307@ocean.campus.luth.se> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:23:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4575.871723432@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm interested in using exceptions and other final standard C++ thingies, > and I'm therefor waiting for g++ 2.8.x to show up. It's not in FreeBSD yet, > but is it out there somewhere? > > If not, does anyone have any estimations at all on when it will be released? > And what will it handle? How finished is it? Any news? > > Maybe also... where _should_ I have asked this? :) And is there any web > page with updated news on how development is going, etc? The following article from gnu.g++.help may be of interest. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mrs@kithrup.com (Mike Stump) Subject: Re: Tired of waiting for a new g++ release. Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 23:39:54 GMT In article <5sq0nr$p77$1@sun27.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, Stefan Neis wrote: >And then I keep hearing for months (years?), that there is "working" >template support for gcc (no offense intended. It works right now, too -- >but only for, say, 'experts'). However, this code is not released. Well, technically, it has been released. See: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b18/cdk-src.tar.gz What you meant to say is that the FSF hasn't released it.