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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2 for FreeBSD ??
Date: 5 Jul 1996 21:11:37 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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rpt@miles.sso.loral.com (Richard Toren) writes:

>I second that request. There has been a great deal of talk and work
>about putting kernel threads into FreeBSD, yet the (not so) current
>compiler can't even compile the (soon to be) ASNI C++ Standard Template
>Library. 

>It also can't compile Douge Schmidts Addaptive Communication Environment
>(ACE).

AFAIK 2.7.2 won't compile the kernel, because of some bugs in gcc.
The core team have said when these bugs are fixed 2.7.? is likely
to be used as the compiler.

	David.