Re: New `gnucc.info' doc patch for gcc 2.95

[craig@jcb-sc.com]

>I believe that to be true only to the Fortran crowd.

Ah, okay.  I was under the impression 2.95 would introduce a bunch
of multilib targets to users of gcc, g++, etc., compared to 2.8.0,
but that was a *very* vague impression!

>(Insert joke about
>several blind men looking at an elephant here.)

(Which reminds me about a rather hilarious "blooper" of an exchange I
have, on videotape, between a local news anchor and scientists discussing
a recent Mars mission, circa July 1997, where the news anchor says:
"Well I was wondering about that, because you saw the Sojourner
and also both Viking missions had landed right in this exact area,
and you think this planet is big, and isn't it sort of like the man
exploring the elephant, you know, how you...the blind man looking
at the elephant and then what parts you are touching depends on how
you will see the beast?"  ;-)

>Other languages -
>especially for embedded targets - have been multilibbed for some time.

Okay.  I'm a bit surprised (concerned?) that, form what I could tell
using grep, there's no building of a `-mieee' variant of libraries
for Alphas, which was one of the things g77/Alpha users needed for
some codes.

Presumably they can fairly easily configure and build their gcc/g77
compiler with such a multilib, but I don't offhand know how.  If you
have a quick recipe for that, let me know, maybe I could put it into
the docs somewhere suitable (perhaps in the new overview doc), and/or
up on my g77 web page.

        tq vm, (burley)