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Re: RedHat 7.0 + gcc-2.96, what's going on with gcc releases?
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com
- Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 + gcc-2.96, what's going on with gcc releases?
- From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik at tiuk dot ti dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:17:18 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray at tzimisce dot soma dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: via, but not speaking for : Texas Instruments Ltd.
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000801175835.03596100@mail.lauterbach.com>
- Reply-To: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik at tiuk dot ti dot com>
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
>Hi,
>
>the just released rh70 beta contains a gcc-2.96 snapshot as the main
>compiler it seems.
Why do they bundle such bleading edge stuff?!
(The had a broken perl snapshot in 5.2 ...)
Randy had promised me they had learnt their lesson...
>Since gcc-2.96/gcc-3.0 is nowhere near a release AFAIK,
>I would like to know if it makes sense to drop the planned (?) gcc-2.95.3
>in favor of a gcc-2.96 release with the libstdc++-v3 and new-abi stuff
>still disabled? AFA I can tell, this should be possible with a relatively
>short stabilization phase...
>
>I for myself think this makes sense, cause as soon as rh70 is out, there
>will probably more bug reports against the snapshot that RH uses than for
>gcc-2.95.x simply due the large userbase of RH.
>
>Franz.
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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.