egcs 1.0.x/1.1.x

[Levente Farkas]

Cristian Gafton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Jos Vos wrote:
> 
> > Will the next version of RHL include egcs 1.1.x?  I see some
> > more packages that require egcs 1.1.x (for C++), as egcs 1.0.x
> 
> The fact that egcs-1.1 bumped libstdc++ soname to 2.9, making it
> necessary to provide yet another compatibility rpm for the libstdc++ 2.8
> did pretty much made it easy for us to decide not to go with such a big
> change in 5.2 over 5.1

the biggest problem that the new libstdc++ 2.9 still not 100% standard
c++ compatible. it's still not contain standard header files like 
valarray, still not use std namespace...
the most annoying thing that Microsoft C++ 5.0 have contain these for
a years. when one of my friend ask me "linux has a stadard c++ compiler"
I reply of cource (but unfortunately have to recognise still not).
linux use to be the cutting edge, but in this case it's somewhere
at the end of the queue:-((( I assume it's not just technical 
question, it 's political too, if a developer who come from MSDS
can't use his "old" programs because of the missing tools...
so my suggestion try to reach at least MS ASAP. 

ps. Cristian, is the any _not_ offical deadline for 5.2 ???

 -- Levente

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