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To: Peter Mutsaers <plm@simplex.nl>
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Subject: Re: internal compiler error 
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2.7.3 will be out soon.

as to the cheap shot, whatever, I'll find way more bugs in 2.6.3's g++
than you'll find in 2.7.x.

-josh

> >> On Thu, 16 May 1996 22:31:29 -0600 you wrote:
> 
>   >> >> causes an internal compiler error running gcc 2.7.2 on FreeBSD 2.2-st
>able.
>   >> 
>   NW> Hmm, it works fine under -stable with 2.6.3.
>   >> 
>   NW> #cheap shot on#
>   NW> This is one of the reasons why we stick w/older versions of GCC. :)
>   NW> #cheap shot off#
>   >> 
>   >> But the newer versions are quite a bit faster.
> 
>   NW> Huh?  I don't think so, as a matter of fact in same cases they are
>   NW> slower, due to more memory use required for those with smaller memory
>   NW> systems.
> 
> I didn't mean running the compiler is faster, but the result is
> faster. I think I saw some comparisons between 2.6.3 and 2.7.2 a while
> back. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
>   NW> And, you certainly can't mean that the optimized code is faster,
>   NW> because in some cases although it's faster it's wrong (ie;
>   NW> buggy).
> 
> 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 had bugs (lots, especially in the c++ part). 2.7.2 had
> some bugs when using -O2 or higher. There are intermediate releases,
> like 2.7.2.9 (of which also a pentium optimized version is available
> for FreeBSD) that has a lot of the known bugs fixed. All bugs  I knew
> were fixed.
> 
> But maybe it is better to wait for 2.8.0 which is told to appear quite
> soon.
> 
> 2.7.2 has better support for templates and exceptions in c++. I can of
> course put both 2.6.3 and 2.7.2 on my system. I have done that now;
> but it is a pity of the wasted disk space of course.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> ______________________________________________________________________
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