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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:58:52 -0500
From:      W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gcc
Message-ID:  <199902281858.NAA69147@bellsouth.net>

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> Hi Chuck,
> 
> I must agree with your concerns about the bleeding-edge nature of
> EGCS.  At Glenayre we've tried several times to move "up" to EGCS
> for our embedded development efforts, only to beat a hasty retreat
> back to GCC because of code generation and execution bugs in the
> compiler.
> 
> Things are improving but I'd be extremely wary of a wholesale shift
> to EGCS just now.
> 
> As an interesting side note, Joel Sherrill of the RTEMS project is a
> director of the EGCS project; Even RTEMS patches the EGCS distribution (!)
> 
> Since RTEMS is using networking code from FreeBSD, perhaps he might
> be a good contact for those maintaining the FreeBSD compiler?

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
wghicks@bellsouth.net


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