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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech2!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2 References: <4afqvb$nfm@jabba.fdn.org> Organization: Mordor International Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 05:37:18 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DJEqA6.D0E@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 34 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 -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451