Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:23:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new compiler? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980814130634.28425B-100000@tundra.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808141731.LAA06318@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Steve Passe wrote: > We have a fairly complex system running with 2.2.6, FreeBSD pthreads and > g++28. We tried both the standard compiler and egcs, but neither would > compile the complete project, let alone run. The biggest problem is in > the area of c++ templates, g++28 will eat things the other 2 barfed on. > We had to make one patch to gcc28 b4 building, and turn on the > "GCC28_THREAD_AWARE" define in libc_r to fix the problem with dynamic > chain handling. After this exceptions seem to work properly. > > My vote would be for gcc28. > My reason's for wanting gcc-2.8.1 also lie along these lines, as we are using a cross development environment at work that is complex and utilizes a mix of gcc-2.8.1 front end and back-end linker/assembler from WRS, targeting arm-wrs-vxworks. It works quite well, and we have no problems with the compiler so far. -- Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Storage Networking Group "I'll take what you're willing to give, and I'll teach myself to live, with a walk-on part of a background shot from a movie I'm not in." - Blink 182, "Apple Shampoo" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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