>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Edward S. Marshall" ) writes:
>
> > On 20 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Try the 7.0beta - it should be included there.
> > [...]
> > > The latest and greates is included with the pinstripe beta.
> >
> > So we should take this to assume that Red Hat intends to actually ship a
> > release version of their operating system with a CVS release of GCC,
> > rather than the release deemed stable by it's own developers?
> >
> > I think a few people had been hoping that gcc 2.96 slipped in there by
> > accident from Raw Hide, and wasn't an intentional choice.
>
> It fixes quite a few bugs from 2.95.2 - which makes it able to compile
> glibc2.2, which 2.95.2 isn't AFAIK (not my part of the distro,
> though). Also, the standards compliance is better.
>
But the gcc people tell that gcc 2.96 generates slower code than gcc
2.95.2. And I have found that it can't recompile itself in pinstripe
(it core dumps). This could be due to glibc since when I replaced it
with gcc 2.95.2 it crashed too.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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