other/895: NEWS out of date and confusing

[Joseph Myers]

>Number:         895
>Category:       other
>Synopsis:       NEWS out of date and confusing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 26 11:16:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joseph S. Myers
>Release:        2.97 20001126 (experimental)
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
System: Linux decomino 2.2.17 #1 Mon Sep 4 20:22:16 UTC 2000 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686

	
host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: ../gcc-cvs/configure --prefix=/opt/gcc/snapshot --disable-shared --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib
>Description:

The file gcc/NEWS starts with:

============================================================
Noteworthy changes in GCC after EGCS 1.1.
-----------------------------------------

Target specific NEWS

    RS6000/PowerPC: -mcpu=401 was added as an alias for -mcpu=403.  -mcpu=e603e
                    was added to do -mcpu=603e and -msoft-float.

    MCore: Port of gcc to Motorola's MCore 210 and 340 contributed.
============================================================

This has the following problems: (a) it gives the impression that EGCS
is something current; (b) it doesn't cover GCC 2.95; (c) the items
listed there aren't in the GCC 2.95 release notes.

>How-To-Repeat:

Look in gcc/NEWS and get confused about whether it's GCC or EGCS and
whether anything's happened since EGCS 1.1.

>Fix:

Resolve the position of gcc/NEWS (and gcc/cp/NEWS, but that seems to
be up to date) versus the online release notes.  If the NEWS file is
obsolete, have it start with a cut-off pointing to release notes for
all more recent news.  If it is not obsolete, make it agree with the
release notes.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: