From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 15:18:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC6014FD5 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id PAA02404; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:16:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:16:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990228151636.C2170@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Kenneth Wayne Culver on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:59:08PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:59:08PM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > This is interesting, what makes egcs better than gcc? just a dumb > question. I agree with Jordan though: no pain no gain. :-) IMHO, maintence. EGCS is actively being developed. Gcc 2.8.x might be, but it is hard to see. Also Jeff Law of the EGCS steering committee, has said that FSF is heavily leaning on GNU GCC 2.9 (or 2.8.2) being some branch along the EGCS tree. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message