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Date:      Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:23:52 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A bit off topic: GCC 2.8???
Message-ID:  <4575.871723432@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:00:41 %2B0200 (CEST)"
References:  <199708160900.LAA00307@ocean.campus.luth.se>

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> I'm interested in using exceptions and other final standard C++ thingies,
> and I'm therefor waiting for g++ 2.8.x to show up. It's not in FreeBSD yet,
> but is it out there somewhere?
> 
> If not, does anyone have any estimations at all on when it will be released?
> And what will it handle? How finished is it? Any news?
> 
> Maybe also... where _should_ I have asked this? :) And is there any web
> page with updated news on how development is going, etc?

The following article from gnu.g++.help may be of interest.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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From: mrs@kithrup.com (Mike Stump)
Subject: Re: Tired of waiting for a new g++ release.
Message-ID: <EEzB2J.L5p@kithrup.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 23:39:54 GMT

In article <5sq0nr$p77$1@sun27.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
Stefan Neis  <neis@cdc.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>And then I keep hearing for months (years?), that there is "working"
>template support for gcc (no offense intended. It works right now, too --
>but only for, say, 'experts'). However, this code is not released.

Well, technically, it has been released.  See:

        ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b18/cdk-src.tar.gz

What you meant to say is that the FSF hasn't released it.



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