From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 30 03:30:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15870 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 03:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15864 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 03:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from alcyone (alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.54]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA04796; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 12:28:44 +0200 (MET-DST) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 12:28:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer X-Sender: pfeifer@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at To: "P. van Leeuwen" cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GCC In-Reply-To: <01BD7419.CEB3DBA0@groenie.nanoteq.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, P. van Leeuwen wrote: > I could not find out on GNU's gcc page what the future plans are for > suporting the upcoming ISO/IEC 14882 C++ standard. > > (Typically things like the built-in bool type and the standard library ) bool and some parts of the standard library (like STL, for example) have been in GCC since 2.7 and 2.8.1 has since improved support for C++ quite a bit. However, I strongly suggest using EGCS (http://egcs.cygnus.com/), a more advanced version of GCC which has vastly improved support for C++ (notably templates), improved code generation and is at least as stable as GCC 2.8.1. BTW, are there any plans of making EGCS the default compiler for FreeBSD? Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) Vienna University of Technology pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message