Please help identify GCC 2.96

Please help identify GCC 2.96

[Imbrie, Andy]

> I am trying to get information about the released version of GCC which is
> labeled 2.96.  It has apparently been included in the Red Hat Linux
> release as documented on:
> 
> http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=287
> 
> Yet version 2.96 does not show up anywhere on the GCC website.  Can you
> help?  Thanks in advance for the info --

Re: Please help identify GCC 2.96

[Claudio Bley]

>>>>> "Andy" == Imbrie, Andy <andy.imbrie@lmco.com> writes:

    >> I am trying to get information about the released version of
    >> GCC which is labeled 2.96.  It has apparently been included in
    >> the Red Hat Linux release as documented on:
    >> 
    >> http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=287
    >> 
    >> Yet version 2.96 does not show up anywhere on the GCC website.
    >> Can you help?  Thanks in advance for the info --

There never was a 2.96 release of gcc. GCC 2.96 was a badly (IMO)
named development version of gcc.

Claudio

RE: Please help identify GCC 2.96

[John Green]

This was posted by Paolo Carlini within the past week or two:
------
1- Despite its misleading name, gcc2.96 is *not* an official GNU release
(see,
f.i., http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.html ) and you should
more
appropriately contact the RedHat support.

2- If you want to stick with RedHat development tools, you may consider
trying
gcc2.96-99 (vs 2.96-81, right?) which is part of the "unstable" Rawhide
distribution (f.i., ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/ ) and in
general is less buggy.

3- If you are still in the process of updating your development chain (from
the
very old 2.7.x) consider testing GNU's gcc2.95.3 or the new 3.0.x series of
official releases (3.0.x is also available as *rpm packages in the Rawhide
distribution, by the way).
------

Regards,
John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [ mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On
> Behalf Of Imbrie, Andy
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:32 AM
> To: 'help-gcc@gnu.org'
> Subject: Please help identify GCC 2.96
>
>
> > I am trying to get information about the released version of
> GCC which is
> > labeled 2.96.  It has apparently been included in the Red Hat Linux
> > release as documented on:
> >
> > http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=287
> >
> > Yet version 2.96 does not show up anywhere on the GCC website.  Can you
> > help?  Thanks in advance for the info --


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