Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:26:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: GCC Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980503174423.2818J-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <19980430041417.42994@nuxi.com>
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[ Added egcs@cygnus.com, as this might be interesting. ] On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, David O'Brien wrote: >> BTW, are there any plans of making EGCS the default compiler for >> FreeBSD? > [egcs] is a way fast moving target. Much of the time the snapshots > won't compile under FreeBSD. I was certainly not speaking of snapshots. EGCS _releases_ are extremely well tested and solid. (OTOH, GCC 2.8.1 still "exceeds virtual memory" when trying to optimize some code of mine, a bug that has been fixed for EGCS last December.) > In production shops, I've seen a lot more places go to gcc 2.8.1 > than EGCS, so I feel gcc/g++ is better tested and stable. Guys like Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>, author of the "FAQ for g++ and libg++", happen to disagree: [EGCS 1.0.x] is considerably more stable than 2.8.1 and vastly more stable than the gcc2 snapshots [...] http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1998-Apr/1105.html > The last "release" is 1.0.2, but there was much development done from > the time 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 that didn't get into 1.0.2. BTW, RedHat plans to build its 5.1 release with EGCS 1.0.3 and there are already plans for an EGCS 1.1 release as well... 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
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