From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 9 08:37:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23587 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 08:37:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23582 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 08:37:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (localhost.softweyr.com [127.0.0.1]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA07838; Sat, 9 May 1998 09:36:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3554780D.2B8E746E@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:36:45 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline CC: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, kline@thought.org Subject: Re: gcc quandry References: <199805081732.KAA28883@athena.tera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Gary Kline wrote: > One solution would be up upgrade to gcc 2.8.X, but > the note about this latest rev being buggy have > me a bit concerned.... esp'ly since I frequency > mod my kernel. > > Has anybody seen significant bugs with the latest > gcc? No, but there are some caveats. The exception code in 2.8.1 still isn't world-class, though it is better than 2.7.x by a long shot. Also, you didn't mention if you tried to compile the code without optimization, etc. Since you can install gcc-2.8.x in /usr/local and not conflict with the standard compiler or any other installation, you have little to lose (other than a few megs of disk space) in trying the newer compiler. You may want to try 'egcs' as well, although it looks like the 1.1.x releases are going to be much better on FreeBSD. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message