Kent Loobey wrote:

> > Maybe I was just dreaming once, but I think I remember some kind
> > of changes RedHat made to gcc that caused binary imcompatabilities
> > with other Linux distros.
> 
> Yep.  you are dreaming.  The problem was that they implemented a version of 
> gcc ahead of it's time.  It wasn't that RedHat had made changes to gcc.

Since RedHat owns Cygnus, and Cygnus employs most of the GCC developers...

But I agree.  RedHat wasn't being predatory, they were being stupid.
They broke binary compatibility with their own earlier releases too.
They also fixed the problem as quick as they could.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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