On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:04:53PM -0500, Bruce Kall wrote:
> What effect does this have for the gcc-2.96-81 shipped with
> RH7.1? This note predates RH7.1 by about 6 months.
>
Still the same:
2.96 is a beefed up pre-release version of gcc 3.0.
It is not officially supported by the gcc team, but instead by RH.
It is still better than the other compilers out there.
The compatibility issues still don't effect most of us, and are overblown.
kgcc is still included where backward compatibility is important.
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
>
> GCC 2.96
>
> October 6th, 2000
>
> It has come to our attention that some GNU/Linux distributions are
> currently shipping with ``GCC 2.96''.
>
> We would like to point out that GCC 2.96 is not a formal GCC release nor
> will there ever be such a release. Rather, GCC 2.96 has been the code-
> name for our development branch that will eventually
> become GCC 3.0.
>
> Current snapshots of GCC, and any version labeled 2.96, produce object
> files that are not compatible with those produced by either GCC 2.95.2
> or the forthcoming GCC 3.0. Therefore, programs built
> with these snapshots will not be compatible with any official GCC
> release. Actually, C and Fortran code will probably be compatible, but
> code in other languages, most notably C++ due to
> incompatibilities in symbol encoding (``mangling''), the standard
> library and the application binary interface (ABI), is likely to fail in
> some way. Static linking against C++ libraries may make a binary
> more portable, at the cost of increasing file size and memory use.
>
> To avoid any confusion, we have bumped the version of our current
> development branch to GCC 2.97.
>
> Please note that both GCC 2.96 and 2.97 are development versions; we do
> not recommend using them for production purposes. Binaries built using
> any version of GCC 2.96 or 2.97 will not be portable
> to systems based on one of our regular releases.
>
> If you encounter a bug in a compiler labeled 2.96, we suggest you
> contact whoever supplied the compiler as we can not support 2.96
> versions that were not issued by the GCC team.
> --
> ====================================================================
> Bruce Kall
> Mayo Foundation
> Rochester, MN
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phone: (507) 255-4768
>
> ====================================================================
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Redhat-list mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spamtrap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
