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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 05:37:18 GMT
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Philippe Causse (caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr) wrote:
: Hello there !

: Is someone working on the port of gcc 2.7.2 to FreeBSD ?

: I tried to get it running but had a lot of problems:
: 	1) gcc-2.7.2 cannot re-compile the kernel, it fails on some inline statements.
: 	2) g++-2.7.2 generates some ".weak" directives in the assembly files
: which are not recognized by the current assembler (version -- GNU assembler
: version 1.92.3, FreeBSD $Revision: 1.4 $) that comes with 2.1-RELEASE.

: I would like to use the C++ compiler contained in gcc-2.7.2 because this
: release include some nice exception-handling stuff (which is now available on
: i386 architectures).

: Then I tried to compile the binutils-2.6 from GNU but they do not support the
: i386-*-freebsd entirely.

: If anybody knows how to get these things running okay, please let me know
: (E-mail prefered <caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr>).

I was going to fiddle with the latest GCC, but I figured that the
core group stuck with 2.6.3 for a reason...which begs the question...
Why?  :-)

Regards,

Chris

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