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Re: Inquiry: When do we think GCC 3.0 might be completely ready?
- To: Joel Fressa <planetxx at richnet dot net>
- Subject: Re: Inquiry: When do we think GCC 3.0 might be completely ready?
- From: Erik Mouw <J dot A dot K dot Mouw at ITS dot TUDelft dot NL>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 23:00:48 +0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs
- References: <000701c0dbdb$b9e53160$6400a8c0@zone.net>
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Joel Fressa wrote:
> I am looking forward to the release of GCC 3.0. Do you know what it might
> be
> complete? Maybe a best guess?
Standard answer for all open/free software projects: it will be
released when it's ready.
> Also, will the Linux Kernel use GCC 3.0 after the release? I never
> understood
> all that. ;-)
Kernels don't need compilers to run. However, one of the requirements
of gcc is that it should be able to *compile* the linux kernel.
Erik
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