Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 06:34:46 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902280627000.68172-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <20655.920182749@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I for one would love to see 2.8.1 or newer in the tree for my own, > > selfish reasons. Many ports (new architectures) would benefit from > > this. > > Is that to say that you prefer it over egcs 1.1.1? If so, why? I was a little surprised at the egcs thing myself. While I (along with probably everyone else) thinks that egcs is more advanced, it's also had the bugs that go along with being leading edge. Since FreeBSD's extremely conservative attitude towards changing our compiler is very nearly legendary, well, to be willing to jump towards the bleeding edge suprised me. If there really exists the political will to move us to egcs, this might be a good thing. The code is very definitely better, and moving us towards egcs will make a later upgrade to an even newer egcs somewhat easier, perhaps. More importantly, it's going to make the egcs writers take notice, and have a bit more receptive attitude towards accepting patches from us for the "FreeBSD" port ... possibly REALLY easing the upgrade path. My own personal experience is that the egcs people read and react to trouble reports ... I've sent them in to the gcc authors in the past, but never seen any changes from them, like I did from egcs. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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