On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 09:32:51AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > 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 have found egcs to be slightly better at C++ code (for my own projects > anyway). I believe that it may produce better code too but I don't have > any real evidence.
egcs is much closer to ISO-14882 (ISO C++), that was finished AFTER gcc2.8.1 was released. So if one wants to do standard conform C++ programing, egcs is the choice at the time being. (though it also doens't implement all features of the standard yet). -- German Tischler ta...@gaspode.franken.de Apple eaten (core dumped) ta...@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
