From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 19 07:55:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA08137 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 07:55:05 -0800 Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA08132 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 07:55:01 -0800 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id KAA19493; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:54:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.6.4) id KAA01140; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:54:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:54:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@mocha.eng.umd.edu To: Ollivier Robert cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gcc-2.7.1 In-Reply-To: <199511191333.OAA01301@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that Chuck Robey said: > > I guess I'm more interested in the bugfixes. As I remember, there was > > one class of bug that was a major deciding factor in not moving to > > gcc-2.7.0, but I don't recall what it was (I'm pretty nearly useless at > > machine language, or following compiler output by reading it). > > I don't recall either but I know that C++ was broken (try running groff > compiled with 2.7.0 !). There were register allocation bugs too I think. I'm pretty sure it was a register allocation type of bug. Ah, well, maybe I'd better wait a month and see what the consensus is on 2.7.1, by those with the time to really beat it to death. Thanks. > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 19 01:34:03 MET 1995 > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: