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Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
- From: "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl at caltech dot edu>
- To: "GCC" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:48:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: Criteria for GCC 4.0
- Reply-to: <stl at caltech dot edu>
[Zack Weinberg]
> I now think the 2.95->3.0 version number bump was
> *only* justified in order to extract ourselves from the
> corner we'd painted ourselves into because EGCS internally
> considered itself to be 2.9[01].
3.0 was correctly named, as it marked when g++ stopped sucking.
Version number inflation is the natural order of things. Better gcc 4.0
than binutils 2.15.91.0.1 (GAH).
As long as it's not "GCC 4.0 Optimized".
Stephan T. Lavavej