Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:27:02 +0200 From: Tomas Furmonavicius <f1926@kaunas.aiva.lt> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc vs egcs Message-ID: <99122819410900.00776@briviba.lt>
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Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote: >Correct me if i'm wrong, but is BSD moving to egcs in 4.0? How will this >change the generated code? Is it just more C++ compatible? There will be one more problem: in egcs C++ compiler exception handling support is enabled by default. It produces _tons_ of _unshared_ code and data, increasing memory consumption significantly. Very few free applications and libraries use exception handling, but nobody cares to disable it when compiling (at least in Linux distributions). For example KDE 1.1.x is almost unusable when compiled with exception handling enabled, but AFAIK all Linux distributions ship KDE compiled with exception support. I hope that BSD port maintainers won't repeat this mistake. Tomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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