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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!seven-up.East.Sun.COM!sungy!stasys!lmsys!mrz!busybit!jochen From: jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How suitable is gcc-2.2.2 for 386bsd? Message-ID: <JOCHEN.92Oct25193856@busybit.mrz.sub.org> Date: 25 Oct 92 18:38:56 GMT References: <colin.719809711@marsh> <1992Oct23.065308.15617@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Oct23.222805.24970@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Sender: uucp@stasys.sta.sub.org Organization: Busybit's Software Labor, D-8068 Pfaffenhofen Lines: 34 X-Md4-Signature: 0dad0b3a52a753b36c04a7a94ead5288 In-Reply-To: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI's message of 23 Oct 92 22:28:05 GMT In article <1992Oct23.222805.24970@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes: In article <1992Oct23.065308.15617@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: > >I strongly advise people not to remove the original gcc-1.39. >gcc-2.2.2 has lots of bugs. gcc-2.2.2 does NOT have lot's of bugs - quite the reverse is true in my opinion (I had more troubles with gcc-1.39 code generation than with gcc-2.2.2). You may have a few problems with C++, but so far I haven't heard of any bad bugs in gcc-2.2.2 that would make me want to have an older version. I don't know, if 1.39 is perfect, but 2.2.2 is *not* ! Two weeks ago we got a new version of our database "TransBase". The people came with the source in the pocket and tried to compile it on our system (SCO 3.2v4). Because I am a great fan of gcc (and I hate the microsoft compiler), I renamed the original compiler (Microsoft C 6.0) to mscc and gcc to cc, so they had to use gcc without knowing it :-) But what's that: The source code of their database did not compile with gcc, at one source file gcc aborted with "internal compiler error" ! Then I renamed the compilers to their original names, they recompiled it with Microsoft C and voila: It worked. I could not believe it, but it's so. Next time when they install a new release, I will try gcc 1.40 :-) Jochen -- Jochen Fahrner, D-8068 Pfaffenhofen, jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org