life expectancy of gcc 3.x

life expectancy of gcc 3.x

[Charles D. Russell]

Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and 
hence g77) will be supported by cygwin?  gfortran does not seem to offer 
as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).

Re: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:05:03AM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and 
>hence g77) will be supported by cygwin?  gfortran does not seem to offer 
>as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).

Just as a rough seat-of-the pants guesstimate, I'd say that it would be
supported for at least another 5.99321719 months.

cgf

RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

[Dave Korn]

On 02 August 2006 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:05:03AM -0500, Charles D. Russell wrote:
>> Would anybody venture an educated guess how much longer gcc 3.x (and
>> hence g77) will be supported by cygwin?  gfortran does not seem to offer
>> as many options as g77 for managing archaic code (e.g. from netlib).
> 
> Just as a rough seat-of-the pants guesstimate, I'd say that it would be
> supported for at least another 5.99321719 months.
> 
> cgf


  I'm in no immediate hurry to retire 3.x, as I still don't feel the 4.x
series has stabilised enough to really count as production-ready yet, so you
can reasonably expect 3.x to remain available for a good time yet, and when I
do feel ready to release a 4.x version I'll keep a 3.x version as the 'prev'
version for a fair while after that too.

  OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
happen then.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

[Igor Peshansky]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
> happen then.

You'll get g__ ?
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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

[Dave Korn]

On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
>> happen then.
> 
> You'll get g__ ?
> 	Igor



  Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ?


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      DaveK
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RE: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

[Igor Peshansky]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
> >> happen then.
> >
> > You'll get g__ ?
> > 	Igor
>
>   Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ?

You know, the moment I sent that message, I thought: "yeah, g-flat-flat".
Except that it would be Gbb, of course (a.k.a. F).
	Igor
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"But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in
that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"

Re: life expectancy of gcc 3.x

[mwoehlke]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 02 August 2006 20:08, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>   OTOH a hippo might fall on it at any moment.  I can't predict what might
>>> happen then.
>> You'll get g__ ?
>> 	Igor
> 
>   Well, in the spirit of C#, shouldn't that be called Gb ?

Hear, hear, I nominate that for a real product! Maybe the GNU version of 
a .NET compiler? (Or is it "Here, here"? I can't remember...)

Wow, that's the best I've seen on here recently :-D.

-- 
Matthew
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