From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Toon Moene To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Strange warning (variable might be clobbered by `longjmp' or`vfork') Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 15:32:00 -0000 Message-id: <9709012226.AA26415@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> References: <199709011923.PAA16417@jfc.> X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00023.html Jim Wilson wrote: > If people think it is important that we have EH support enabled > by default in the first EGCS release, then someone (me?) will have > to spend time looking into this real soon. And John Carr replied: > I consider exception handling important. I don't know > how hard the bugs will be to fix so I can't say whether > it is worth delaying the release. Let me second this. Joe Buck has made it abundantly clear that the one major selling point of the first egcs release is a reliable C++ compiler reasonably close to the draft standard, with working exception handling support. Although I cannot personally speak for the Fortran community on this list, I think that all other goals can be made subordinate to that one. I have the feeling the g77 crowd can wait, especially if we (i.e. the g77-dev `inner circle') can produce a g77-0.5.21 to go together with gcc-2.7.2.3 that at least solves all the known bugs in g77-0.5.20 and then some - which we _can_ *iff* the GNU machines at MIT stay on the 'net reliably. Toon.