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Re: Wasted effort?
- To: eric dot b dot lemings at lmco dot com (Eric Lemings)
- Subject: Re: Wasted effort?
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:41:08 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> I was just wondering what's the point in releasing gcc-2.95.3 when the
> GCC home page says that gcc-3.0 will be released at the end of this
> quarter?
No, the GCC home page says "which we hope to release by the end of Q1
2001". And it appears that this date will not be met.
> Perhaps the maintenance release will be much more stable than
> the major release? Or perhaps the maintenance release will actually
> precede the major release by a few rather than a couple of months?
Or both. Also, 2.95.3 will be binary compatible with 2.95.2 for C++,
3.0 will not be.