Brian Feldman <gr...@unixhelp.org> wrote:
[use cc1-2.7.2.1 and ECGS cc1plus]

> we get to keep
>(for now) the stable, reliable, C compiler we've been depending on for years.

With all the well-known idiosyncrasies that we've been working around
for years.

> Of
>course, in the long run, once stability is proven, switching to entirely EGCS
>would make sense.

There's a catch-22 here:  We can't prove the stability of EGCS until we
start using it.  Even if we don't make EGCS the base compiler, we need
a standard documented mechanism for doing `make world' with EGCS as well
as agreement that bug reports using ECGS will be considered.

Peter


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