Re: Why is 2.95 still around?
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:24 -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:08:22PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>
> > I'm curious why gcc-2.95 or even gcc-3.3 is still in the archives? Is
> > there a mistrust for newer stuff or something related to stability as
> > is the case with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels? Thanks...
>
> Because some people may still have legacy source code that requires one
> of those versions to build, and they aren't yet ready to port that code
> to a newer compiler.
And lets not forget non-x86 systems. 2.95 is still often the best
compiler for those systems.
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