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From: Karel Zuiderveld <Karel.Zuiderveld@cv.ruu.nl>
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Subject: Re: 20.2b2 on irix 6.2/n32 ok
To: cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:30:13 +0200 (METDST)
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In-Reply-To: <199704251009.FAA26419@xemacs.org> from "Richard Cognot" at Apr 25, 97 06:05:47 am
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>     P> The n32 compiler/library set is the direction SGI wants to go
>     P> with their development environment. Supporting it as an option
>     P> is definatly a win, as sooner or later the 'o32' environment
>     P> will vanish the was coff support vanished in 6.x.
> 
> I hope they will fix their compilers before doing that. We currently
> cannot use n32 here because of bugs in the template instanciation code 
> with n32 in C++ (the instanciation files goes in the wrong place,
> meaning no instanciation take place at library closure time).

I think that SGI's C++ compiler is one of the best around. In any
case, this is not an issue for adopting n32 for xemacs since it only
uses C. 

Karel


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