Old version of gcc

[Jim Wilson]

jb wrote:
> We wonder where we can found an old version of gcc
> (for instance 1.0) in order to adapt it to our kernel : Barbux

There are old versions on the ftp site.
	ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/old-releases

This is unlikely to be a good strategy.  You will find old releases hard 
to compile because they assume 15 year old tools and libraries.  Modern 
tools and libraries are likely to be incompatible in difficult to fix ways.

If you do get it built, you will discover that a 15-year old gcc isn't 
very useful, since it won't be able to compile a lot of modern C code. 
And the C++ stuff will be completely useless, the C++ language has 
changed too much over the last 15 years.

If you find bugs, you won't be able to find anyone interested in fixing 
them.

Jim