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Hello Developers!

Thank you ever and ever again for maintaining FreeBSD! I feel so guilty
that I can't do much myself, but my thoughts are with you and this great
OS! The binary compatibility initiative between *BSD*, Linux, SCO and Sun
will hopefully be fruitful for the competence of PC UNICES against WinNT!

As I am developing C++ applications in health care (powered by FreeBSD,
of course!) I need a strong C++ compiler. GCC 2.7.3 is a bit outdated by
now and it is high time for working exceptions, rtti, etc. Cygnus seemed
to detach from GCC or better GCC is picky about Cygnus' inventions?
Anyway, I fear that GCC-2.8 will take some more time to its release, hope-
fully not years! EGCS is the new GCC initiative hosted by Cygnus employees.
Seems to be more state of the art. I didn't try it yet, did anyone else?
Is it planned to replace the EGCS as FreeBSD's cc(1)? I think it was an
important step in release 2.2 to use the most up to date compiler (no more
GCC 1.45, 2.3.3 :-)

regards
-Gunther

PS: I think EGCS has already incorporated the i586 speedups worked into
GCC (was it pgcc?) It sure is a great thing if these are running as
standard on FreeBSD, isn' t it?

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Quote:> As I am developing C++ applications in health care (powered by FreeBSD,
> of course!) I need a strong C++ compiler. GCC 2.7.3 is a bit outdated by
> now and it is high time for working exceptions, rtti, etc. Cygnus seemed
> to detach from GCC or better GCC is picky about Cygnus' inventions?

Quote:> Anyway, I fear that GCC-2.8 will take some more time to its release, hope-
> fully not years! EGCS is the new GCC initiative hosted by Cygnus employees.
> Seems to be more state of the art. I didn't try it yet, did anyone else?
> Is it planned to replace the EGCS as FreeBSD's cc(1)? I think it was an
> important step in release 2.2 to use the most up to date compiler (no more
> GCC 1.45, 2.3.3 :-)

What does the core team have to say on this ?  John ? :)

Cheers
Tim.
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Quote:> Hello Developers!

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> Anyway, I fear that GCC-2.8 will take some more time to its release, hope-
> fully not years! EGCS is the new GCC initiative hosted by Cygnus employees.
> Seems to be more state of the art. I didn't try it yet, did anyone else?
> Is it planned to replace the EGCS as FreeBSD's cc(1)? I think it was an
> important step in release 2.2 to use the most up to date compiler (no more
> GCC 1.45, 2.3.3 :-)

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> PS: I think EGCS has already incorporated the i586 speedups worked into
> GCC (was it pgcc?) It sure is a great thing if these are running as
> standard on FreeBSD, isn' t it?

I applaud (loudly) the EGCS effort.

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John

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cheers, J"org

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

    >> Is it planned to replace the EGCS as FreeBSD's cc(1)?

    JW> I'm afraid we might need to go ELF first, since neither of the
    JW> GNU tools supports the old FreeBSD a.out anymore.

Good. I hope that will happen soon. I heard someone already was
running a 100% ELF FreeBSD system.
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