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Re: An article about the Cygnus tree
- To: GCC Developers <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: An article about the Cygnus tree
- From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr at jpr dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 00:31:10 -0400
Alexandre Oliva propounded (on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:05:52AM -0300):
| On Sep 4, 2000, Jan Dvorak <johnydog@go.cz> wrote:
|
| > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:30:59PM -0500, Michael Sokolov wrote:
| >> BTW, what did EGCS stand for?
|
| > EGCS stands for Extended GNU Compiler System
|
| AFAIK, the E in EGCS could also stand for Experimental and Enhanced,
| depending on the reader. There was no official wording :-)
Go to the source...
In the initial announcement of EGCS (//gcc.gnu.org/news/announcement.html),
15 Aug 1997, I do see "experimental", but neither "enhanced" nor "extended".
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JP