Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:55:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Exception support and namespace support.
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On 14 Jan 1998, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> When is a version of DJGPP likely to be available with full exception and
> namespace support? I hear a version of G++ is in the works with such
> support; when will it be available as part of DJGPP?

GCC 2.8.0 was released today.  It supports exceptions; namespace support 
is described as ``preliminary''.  Anybody with enough motivation should 
be able to compile it for DJGPP.  It would be nice if somebody would 
volunteer to prepare a binary distribution and upload it to SimTel.NET.

Note that for C++ programs, you will probably need the new C++ library as
well (libstdc++-2.8.0.tar.gz from the ftp site below).

GCC 2.8.0 is available from this URL:

	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc-2.8.0.tar.gz

and from GNU mirror sites world-wide.