I know that, back when we ran aout, our gcc was a long way changed from the stock gnu gcc ... I'm wondering how much our gcc is changed, now, from the gcc that is the regular GNU distribution?
I'm wondering about the size of a project, to upgrade the compiler (this wants a relative answer, how much larger or smaller a job is it now, that it would have been a year ago under aout)? Is anyone doing this? Has there been a decision, most especially from core, about whether we want to use the gcc 2.8.1, or the egcs compiler? What with the rather largeish changes that have gone into C++, it's becoming necessary to have a more up to date compiler. Just speaking about ports, there are a large and growing number of them that compile under 2.8.1, but have problems under 2.7.2.1 (because of exceptions, and other newer features). I'm finally feeling pressure to use a later compiler. I'm making do with the one from ports, but I'm curious about our system compiler. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@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 majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
