egcs & gcc 2.8

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199712101809.KAA02446@telaviv.tmai.com >you write:
  >  http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/egcs-1.0.html:
  > 
  >    egcs-1.0 also contains many improvements and features not found in
  >    gcc-2.7 and even the soon to be released gcc-2.8 compilers.
  > 
  > Could someone please educate me about the relations between 
  > egcs and gcc 2.8?
It's pretty simple.

egcs-1.0 is based on an early August snapshot of the gcc-2.8 development
sources with many of our own enhancements & bugfixes.

The current snapshots are based on the soon to be release gcc-2.8 (again
with our enhancements and bugfixes).

jeff