Re: [HACKERS] problem compiling with egcs 1.1.1

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > gcc version egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release) has no problem
> > > to compile 6.4, and 1.1.1 release also compiles 6.4 fine.
> > > Today I installed 1.1.1 and recompile 6.4 - no problem !
> > > Probably egcs people fixed the problem.
> >
> > What optimization level do you use? Do you find that the newer version
> > of egcs does a good job with floating point rounding, or are the
> > regression tests filled with ".999999" results? I much preferred the
> > gcc-2.7.x behavior wrt graceful rounding, and hope that at some point
> > egcs will also have it...
>
> Why do people use egcs? It looks like an experimental version of gcc2,
> and I am not big on experimental compilers. I want something that
> works, 100% of the time.

EGCS is about as 'experimental' as PostgreSQL, actually. From
what I've read about EGCS, its basically GCC in a more open development
model/scenario...those using and playing with it have anon-cvs access to
the source code, can follow along with the development, and have very open
and visible access to the developers...

About the only 'truly experimental' nature to EGCS is that there
are alot more ppl whom have access to the source code at development
stages, compoared to GCC where you basically see a release and that's
it...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org