Re: Another bug using RH7.0 version of g++...

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On Oct  2, 2000, llewelly@edevnull.com wrote:

> Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch> writes:
>> Did anybody test this compiler before making it the default of RH7.0?!?

> Please note that gcc 2.96 is an experimental compiler, *not* a
>   released compiler.

Actually, Red Hat Linux 7 shipped with a version of GCC that started
as a CVS snapshot, but that undergone a long stabilization process,
with lots of bug-fixes that were contributed back to the official GCC
repository.  It is definitely not experimental, but it isn't an
official release of GCC either, in the sense that it was not released
by someone appointed by the FSF or the GCC Steering Committee.

For that reason, this is not the best place to report bugs on that
compiler, unless the bug is known to be present in some official
release of GCC, or in a recent development snapshot.  It's unfortunate
that the compiler Red Hat shipped tells users to report bugs here; the
FSF is not responsible for bugs in Red Hat products.  Instead, it
would have been more appropriate to point to bugzilla.redhat.com.

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