Re: [Cooker] Why gcc 2.96 and not 3.0?

[Guillaume Cottenceau]

"Chris Mumford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Why is Mandrake distributing the 2.96 gcc compiler and not 3.0?

Actually gcc 2.96 is the most stable version of gcc currently. It fixes
many more bugs than it creates.

The assertion that it can't compile programs is false, since we did
recompile our whole distro (2300+ packages) with this compiler.

The reputation of being binary incompatible is mostly based on rumors: it
affects only dynamicly linked C++ code; and this same incompatibility
exists between egcs-1.1.2 and gcc-2.95, and will exist between gcc-2.95
and gcc-3.0.

Did you know that Alan Cox recently said on LKML that Linux kernel 2.4.3
now needs to be compiled with gcc >= 2.96 ?

Please also read:

http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/