egcs & gcc 2.8 ??

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199712111819.KAA02784@telaviv.tmai.com >you write:
  > Many of egcs users, I believe, assume that a code 
  > compiled with egcs's gcc/g++ could be compiled eventually
  > with the official gcc-<l>.<m>.<n>.
  > Therefore, we would all like to help with early feedback on further 
  > gcc development.
That's probably not a safe assumption.  We're moving forward at a much faster
pace than gcc2.  Odds are we've already got some g++ features in egcs that
are not in gcc2.


  > So the questions are really:
  > 
  >   * How gcc's official release is determined.
I don't know how to answer that.  That's one of the problems with the whole
gcc-2.8 process, nobody knows how/when releases will happen.  I (and othes)
complained more than once about this problem, but nothing ever happened.


  >   * What are the egcs features that will not make it
  >     into the next gcc release.
That depends mostly on the gcc2 folks.  It's mostly out of our hands.

  >   * What is the expected time length for a bug-fix in some egcs snap-shot
  >     to propogate to the official gcc release.
Again, depends on the gcc2 folks.

jeff