From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 10:55:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [194.77.0.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E193215217 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA12308; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:55:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA39735; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:54:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:54:57 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Andreas Klemm , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chuck Robey , "David O'Brien" , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990305195457.B39438@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990305183359.A37263@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <199903051821.KAA49076@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199903051821.KAA49076@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 10:21:08AM -0800 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 10:21:08AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I like idea of being able to choose between two different compilers > on the fly -- as in with a kernel config option or a make.conf option. > > I don't think we can 'replace' gcc in 4.x. It will screw up too many > people trying to track down bugs, including me. And what about including it as an alternative system compiler ? base: cc gcc g++ c++ egcs: ecc egcc eg++ ec++ Would that be possible ? Like awk and nawk in the past ?! ;-) That would bering an option to people, who want to have it in the base OS ... Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message