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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: gcc 2.5.8 on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Date: 14 Jul 1994 19:11:59 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <rcarterCsxwE1.56p@netcom.com>,
Russell Carter <rcarter@netcom.com> wrote:
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>
>Has anybody got gcc 2.5.8 running on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1?

It's in the source tree I believe, but the reason it's not the
standard compiler is because it's very buggy.  At least with gcc 2.4.5
you don't have so many bugs.  I'd rather have non-existant features with
no bugs rather than lots of features and lots of bugs. ;)


Nate
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