bootstrapping with `cc -n32' on IRIX 6.3 fails compare

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In a message dated 3/24/99 5:13:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,
ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu writes:

> It looks like we have 6.2 and 7.1, but the dates on the 7.1 entry are
>  _older_ than the 6.2 one. (?)  Wierd.
7.1 is the worst of the versions 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1.  My installation
supposedly upgraded to 7.2.1 a week ago but I don't see any fixes for
documented bugs of 7.2.