Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 19:11:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A bit off topic: GCC 2.8??? Message-ID: <199708190211.TAA06345@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Aug 1997 14:05:41 CDT." <199708181905.OAA14914@dyson.iquest.net>
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Went hunting for egcs and found it at: http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/ Enjoy, Amancio >From The Desk Of "John S. Dyson" : > > > 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 ye t, > > > 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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