GCC 3.0.4 Released

[Joe Buck]

> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > You're thinking of developers as opposed to end users, who will only be
> > using FSF releases.  For them, diffs from 3.0.4 to 3.1 will be useful if
> > the size is substantially smaller than just downloading 3.1.
> 
> They're also quite likely to run into limitations of gcc_update - even if
> they do run it after patching to adjust timestamps, by design it touches
> files in CVS only, so the timestamps of generated files that aren't in CVS
> may well be wrong after patching.

If the patch is ordered in such a way that diffs to derived files appear after
diffs to the base files, then gcc_update is not needed.