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From: Richard Lyon <rlyon@rlyon.mynet.au>
To: Wes Peters <wes@btsslc.com>
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On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Wes Peters wrote:

> GCC 2.7.2 and libg++ 2.7.1 are available, but unless you need one of
> the new features, I can't recommend changing right now.  The major
> difference between 2.6, which FreeBSD 2.1 comes with, and 2.7 is
> support for exceptions, which is still pretty experimental.
> 

gcc 2.6.3 has some interesting c++ bugs which I have not been able to 
work around. The worst problem relates to initialisation of static 
members. There are other annoying behaviours like incorrect scope resolution.

gcc2.7.x does not appear to have these bugs (GM, its that sta 
comms server). I think it is better to stay with 2.6.3 unless you find 
you have good c++ code which just won't compile.

Regards ...