This is their bleeding edge offering. This will enable us to better track
the direction EGCS is going for future upgrades of /usr/contrib/egcs/.
Above ver 1.1.2, this offering gives you many C++ fixes/enhancements, *and*
a native Java compiler.
* Implement support for weak symbols. This solves the "___error" undefined
problem on 3.0-CURRENT systems.
* look for crt0.o in /usr/lib/aout on 3.0-CURRENT systems.
default for FreeBSD. The standard exception implementation reliably
dumps core under FreeBSD. Users can put "-fno-sjlj-exceptions" on
the command line if they really want to override the new default.
Configure with "--with-gnu-as" and "--with-gnu-ld".
Define "__FreeBSD__" as 3.
like "enhanced GNU compiler suite." It contains updated versions of
gcc, g++, and g77 with many bugfixes and some new optimizations.
The C++ compiler in particular is vastly improved over gcc-2.7.2.1.