gcc-2.95 and SGI STL 3.2

[craig@jcb-sc.com]

Just to add my two cents, FWIW:

  -  gcc 3.0 is an "event" that many people will expect to require
     recompiling anyway, so things like a new STL could happen there.

  -  gcc 2.95 might be "big enough" without the new STL for the gcc
     community, especially those users who have not already switched
     to EGCS, and thus will see it as the "next" version after 2.8.1.
     (I know basically nothing about the STL issues, and therefore have
     no opinion on them.)

  -  gcc 3.0 also is my personal target for the g77 0.6 rewrite, which
     will have some substantial effects on behaviors of g77 that people
     are used to, which is why I really hope to get it into 3.0, not
     3.1, 3.2, etc., and not wait for 4.0.

  -  Someday g77 really needs to break away from libf2c, and define
     its own library, libg77.  3.0 would be great for this, but I doubt
     it'll happen -- the 0.6 rewrite (which involves the front end,
     not the run-time library) is a big-enough task for me now.  That
     means libg77 would be a gcc 4.0 item, though possibly we could
     decide on it being a 3.X item, since we still speak of g77 being
     in "beta".

        tq vm, (burley)