On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 06:09:14PM -0600, Brad Felmey wrote: > Not wanting that screwed-up bastard stepchild known as gcc3
Hmmm. 2.95 from GNU 2.96 from RedHat (and others) 3.0 from GNU Which is the "bastard stepchild"???? Personally I LIKE GCC 3.0 and use it as my default. I would like to use g++-3.0 also, but can't since most libs aren't built with it, and I don't feel like recompiling my system's entire set of c++ libs. If you don't like the fact that g++ 3.0 is incompatible with g++ 2.xx, then you should look at why. It was modified to follow the ISO namespace and name mangling standards to make so it can finally link with c++ libs from other "current generation" c++ compilers. Unlike the old days where pretty much all c++ libs were only compatible with a specific vendors compiler. It's called a little extra pain now to reduce long-term pain. Like Martin said, just add it, use it for this app and nothing else if you don't like it.... but 2.96 is the "bastard stepchild". -- TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger
