Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 14:50:43 -0800, G. Crimp wrote: The egcs versions of gcc and g++ are not both yet ready for prime time. I may get corrected on this, Indeed. but I think it is gcc that still has some bugs, Wrong. To quote /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian: :- FSF gcc 2.7.2.x provides

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:49:17PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:58:29 -0700 (MST), Jason Gunthorpe wrote: for our gcc because nobody has patched the 2.0 kernels to work with another gcc. Do the 2.2 kernels compile with egcs? As of somewhere in the 2.1 series Linux

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread Christophe Broult
Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:49:17PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:58:29 -0700 (MST), Jason Gunthorpe wrote: for our gcc because nobody has patched the 2.0 kernels to work with another gcc.

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread Conrado Badenas
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Debian uses eg++ for our g++ because 2.7 is effectively useless (it encourages code that will not work on other C++ compilers) and we use 2.7 for our gcc because nobody has patched the 2.0 kernels to work with another gcc. Effectively 2.7.* is dead and all development is

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:16:32 +0100, Conrado Badenas wrote: What egcs means? It used to mean Experimental GCC Compiler Suite, though AFAIK it's not expanded anywhere on the EGCS website (http://egcs.cygnus.com) anymore. If both gcc and egcs are developed by GNU, why they are missynchronized

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, fantumn (Steven Baker) wrote: First, was wondering _what_ the differences between gcc and egcs were. It is mostly a matter of version Somewhere in /usr/doc/gcc (sorry, don't remember exactly where) I found a recommendation about

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-20 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 04:54:19PM -0500, fantumn Steven Baker wrote: Hi Steve, Glad to see you are still amongst the ranks of Debian users. I am not the most knowledgable person on this subject, but when I say the name fantumn, I couldn't resist answering. You might get a better

gcc vs egcs

1999-01-19 Thread fantumn \(Steven Baker\)
Okay, I don't want to start a holy war or anything here, but I have some questions about egcs and gcc. First, was wondering _what_ the differences between gcc and egcs were. (Note: when I say gcc, I mean gcc _and_ g++) Compatibility: First, can egcs compile everything that gcc can? IE:

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, fantumn (Steven Baker) wrote: Okay, I don't want to start a holy war or anything here, but I have some questions about egcs and gcc. First, was wondering _what_ the differences between gcc and egcs were. It is mostly a matter of version gcc 2.7.* has been used

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-19 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:58:29 -0700 (MST), Jason Gunthorpe wrote: for our gcc because nobody has patched the 2.0 kernels to work with another gcc. Do the 2.2 kernels compile with egcs? - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm

Re: gcc vs egcs

1999-01-19 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
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