Re: GCC and EGCS
:: staf wagemakers writes:
> The latest gcc sersion 2.96 ( which is the default compiler on Red Hat 7 ) has
> a few bugs and isn't able to compile the Linux kernel. This version of gcc is
> only a pre-release therefor I wouldn't use this version at all...
There was some flame war in linux-kernel and elsewhere I guess because
of that. It's not "pre-release". They actually picked a CVS snapshot
that was not binary-compatible with anything else, and with unknown
bugs, and packaged it.
I'd call our version of gcc (2.95.3) a "prerelease", but not Red
Hat's "2.96".
The gcc people had to publicaly announce that there has never been an
official 2.96 gcc version...
J.
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