Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:05:41 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A bit off topic: GCC 2.8??? Message-ID: <199708181905.OAA14914@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199708181820.MAA02086@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Aug 18, 97 12:20:01 pm"
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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? > > Check out the gnu newsgroups on Usenet. Basically, the FSF is getting > beat up by some folks who think they should make a release, since > templates and exceptions are broken. Even the Cygnus folks are > wondering why they don't make a release, since it makes their job harder > to synchronize up with the FSF codes. > The egcs project appears to be a spin-off, and looks like they are moving forward quickly. A contributor has already proposed major improvement to the register allocation (spill) scheme. John
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