From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 27 17:25:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A2515187 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA19881; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Chuck Robey Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:13:00 EST." Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 17:25:28 -0800 Message-ID: <19877.920165128@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm wondering about the size of a project, to upgrade the compiler (this > wants a relative answer, how much larger or smaller a job is it now, > that it would have been a year ago under aout)? Is anyone doing this? Peter was working on it, but I strongly suspect he won't have time to even think about this in the very near future and we shouldn't allow him to add it to his plate, no matter how loudly he demands to suffer to excess. :-) It would probably be cool to find out what the last set of issues he identified and/or fixed with this was though. > Has there been a decision, most especially from core, about whether we > want to use the gcc 2.8.1, or the egcs compiler? I'm not sure I'd call it a "decision", but there are strong leanings towards egcs. It simply seems to be moving more aggressively (and more well-fundedly) in the right directions whereas gcc 2.8.1 has been very slow to update. > What with the rather largeish changes that have gone into C++, it's > becoming necessary to have a more up to date compiler. Just speaking Yes. I can say authoritatively, for example, that there will probably never be a new sysinstall or package handling system without this change occurring since the new tools are written almost entirely in C++ and TCL and require many features not provided by 2.7.2.x. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message