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Re: Upgrade now ?


Dag Nygren <dag@newtech.fi> wrote:
> Have been running gcc 2.95.3 for ages here and it seems to
> work OK.
> Now I would like some advice on a possible upgrade.

I still use 2.95.3 whenever possible for two reasons: some code out
there (e.g., ncurses 5.2) won't compile with gcc 3; and gcc 3 seems to
miscompile gcc 2.95.3.  (Using gcc 3 to build gcc 2.95.3 results in a
bootstrap comparison failure.)


paul


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