From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 19 05:46:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA02258 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 05:46:49 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA02244 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 05:46:38 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id OAA17980 ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:46:30 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id OAA14381 ; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:46:30 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id OAA01301; Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:33:06 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199511191333.OAA01301@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Gcc-2.7.1 To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 14:33:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 18, 95 09:54:18 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1345 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Chuck Robey said: > I guess I'm more interested in the bugfixes. As I remember, there was > one class of bug that was a major deciding factor in not moving to > gcc-2.7.0, but I don't recall what it was (I'm pretty nearly useless at > machine language, or following compiler output by reading it). I don't recall either but I know that C++ was broken (try running groff compiled with 2.7.0 !). There were register allocation bugs too I think. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 19 01:34:03 MET 1995