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Re: GCC and EGCS



On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I am really confused over the different compilers wich seems to be 
> together.
> 
> Does EGCS exist today? or is it included in GCC. Many software recomments 
> to be compiled with egcs (???). I have GCC 2.95.2 installed on my machine 

If I'm not mistaken this IS egcs.

> wich seems to be the latest version of GCC. The kernel doc tells me that i
> 
> have to use GCC 2.72 (???) and only for secondary choice the latest GCC!

Depends if you have a new kernel you'll need newer gcc otherwise only
older gcc will work (not sure where the 'change point' was, but I think
around 2.2.7?).

> 
> Could someone solute my confusion?
> 
> Thanks for every help.
> 
> cheers,
> Raffaele
> 
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