On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Brian Feldman <gr...@unixhelp.org> wrote:
> [use cc1-2.7.2.1 and ECGS cc1plus]
>
> > we get to keep
> >(for now) the stable, reliable, C compiler we've been depending on for years.
>
> With all the well-known idiosyncrasies that we've been working around
> for years.
>
> > Of
> >course, in the long run, once stability is proven, switching to entirely EGCS
> >would make sense.
>
> There's a catch-22 here: We can't prove the stability of EGCS until we
> start using it. Even if we don't make EGCS the base compiler, we need
> a standard documented mechanism for doing `make world' with EGCS as well
> as agreement that bug reports using ECGS will be considered.
All gcc/cc do is act as a front-end to cc1/cc1obj/cc1plus. Hence, a second cc
for egcs could be used, or maybe using a cc -egcs flag, etc.
>
> Peter
>
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