Karthikeyan M wrote:
Oh ! So the releases on http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html are for
those who just want to use gcc and not hack it ?
Is the latest release not done from the top of the trunk ?
No; the top of the trunk is far too unstable for releasing. Release
branches are split off of trunk about once a year, and then debugged for
about four months or so after that before a release is done from them.
At that point, regressions and some major bugs are fixed in the release
branch, and further releases are done from them.
4.1.3 is thus the fourth release from the 4.1 branch, which was split
from the trunk in late 2005. You're currently in the worst possible
position for releases, since 4.2.0 is almost but not quite ready for
releases.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html for details, especially the timeline
at the bottom.
- Brooks
