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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:49:06 +0100 (MET)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To:        Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making -STABLE
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001052147140.20692-100000@nunki.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <20000105171318.A31285@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> "1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
> ---------------------
> 
> The base C/C++ compiler has been upgraded from GCC 2.7.2 to GCC 2.95.2.
> This gives users full ISO C++ support, and preliminary C9x support."
                   ^^^^
This is not completely true yet, but we are quite close. ;-)

> All we need is a bit of patience, the port was included only
> because some other ports (like FlightGear) already depend on it.

If you want to do serious C++ work, GCC 2.95 is the way to go -- 2.7.2
is seriously broken in many ways and also predates the ISO C++ standard.

Gerald
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/



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