Inquiry: When do we think GCC 3.0 might be completely ready?

[Erik Mouw]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Joel Fressa wrote:
>   I am looking forward to the release of GCC 3.0. Do you know what it might
> be
> complete? Maybe a best guess?

Standard answer for all open/free software projects: it will be
released when it's ready.

>   Also, will the Linux Kernel use GCC 3.0 after the release? I never
> understood
> all that. ;-)

Kernels don't need compilers to run. However, one of the requirements
of gcc is that it should be able to *compile* the linux kernel.


Erik

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