Re: GCC and EGCS
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> :: 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...
Ok, then I wouldn't never use Red Hat 7.0 :)
regards,
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Staf Wagemakers
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