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Date:      Wed, 27 May 1998 00:12:30 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning
Message-ID:  <19980527001230.50907@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805261836.LAA00466@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:36:54AM -0700
References:  <19980526194334.44185@follo.net> <199805261836.LAA00466@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:36:54AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:59:52AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > > I really don't think that we would want to also get into compiler
> > > support issues.  Tool support issues are complex enough.  I can imagine
> > > that egcs (could) be stable enough for our c++ compiler, but am much
> > > less confident of it being our default c compiler.
> > 
> > Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible.  It seems to
> > be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc.
> 
> How much of the world will build with it?

Very little without custom setup, I suspect.  TenDRA is (in the
default mode) a pure ANSI compiler, with exact checking against the
ANSI API.

I think making it support e.g. 'long long' would need modifications of
the frontend.

Eivind.


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