Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 19:27:27 +1100 (EST) From: Richard Lyon <rlyon@rlyon.mynet.au> To: Wes Peters <wes@btsslc.com> Cc: Angel Ortiz <angelo@tawny.ssd.hcsc.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where Can I find a X debugger for g++ Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960203191924.2392D-100000@rlyon.mynet.au> In-Reply-To: <199602020242.SAA23965@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Wes Peters wrote: > GCC 2.7.2 and libg++ 2.7.1 are available, but unless you need one of > the new features, I can't recommend changing right now. The major > difference between 2.6, which FreeBSD 2.1 comes with, and 2.7 is > support for exceptions, which is still pretty experimental. > gcc 2.6.3 has some interesting c++ bugs which I have not been able to work around. The worst problem relates to initialisation of static members. There are other annoying behaviours like incorrect scope resolution. gcc2.7.x does not appear to have these bugs (GM, its that sta comms server). I think it is better to stay with 2.6.3 unless you find you have good c++ code which just won't compile. Regards ...
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