Suggest ``Quality of Release'' Statement in FAQ

["Frederick W. Wheeler" <wheeler at ipl dot rpi dot edu>]

A useful addition to the EGCS FAQ would be an informed statement about
the quality of the current release.  I'd like to understand better how
well EGCS adheres to the standard and where the bugs might be (and
probably aren't) in the compiler.

Some example questions that might get answered:
* How does EGCS differ from the standard with regard to templates?
* If a C program compiles, how sure can I be that it will behave as it should.
* Same for a C++ program using various features like templates and exceptions

Of course, nobody really knows what compiler features will bring out
bugs, but I'm sure that some of you know what parts are clean and what
parts are still bug prone.

There are many bug reports sent to egcs-bugs@cygnus.com and posted to
gnu.gcc.bug.  Unfortunately, I can't sort out which complaints are
legitimate and which are due to misinterpretation of the language on
the users part.

I am amazed that it is possible to create a computer program that
understands a language as complicated as C++.  My hat's off to the gcc
and egcs developers.

Regards,
Fred Wheeler