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Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
- To: alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk
- Subject: Re: GCC2 merging (was "native language support now available")
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 98 8:54:21 PDT
- Cc: rms at gnu dot org, james at westongold dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
> PS: What do we do about the pgcc split? Ask them to combine their stuff
> with egcs to become the *one* true gcc? I'd like to see their Pentium
> optimizations included.
The egcs maintainers are working with some of the pgcc people to get
things merged; it's been slower going than expected though. The current
status is that pgcc is egcs plus diffs. I hope that those diffs will
eventually approach zero. Even the pgcc people will tell you that the way
some things were done isn't the best way.
> Frankly, it makes me nervous to see the various pgcc/egcs/gcc 2.8.x trees
> split from gcc 2.7.2.
These splits preceded egcs (there was pgcc, there are the Cygnus releases
to their customers, as well as a couple of others). One of the initial
egcs goals was to reduce the number of forks.