From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Ing-Simmons To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com Cc: "Randy J. Ray" Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 + gcc-2.96, what's going on with gcc releases? Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 10:21:00 -0000 Message-id: <200008011717.SAA10586@mikado.tiuk.ti.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000801175835.03596100@mail.lauterbach.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00006.html Franz Sirl writes: >Hi, > >the just released rh70 beta contains a gcc-2.96 snapshot as the main >compiler it seems. Why do they bundle such bleading edge stuff?! (The had a broken perl snapshot in 5.2 ...) Randy had promised me they had learnt their lesson... >Since gcc-2.96/gcc-3.0 is nowhere near a release AFAIK, >I would like to know if it makes sense to drop the planned (?) gcc-2.95.3 >in favor of a gcc-2.96 release with the libstdc++-v3 and new-abi stuff >still disabled? AFA I can tell, this should be possible with a relatively >short stabilization phase... > >I for myself think this makes sense, cause as soon as rh70 is out, there >will probably more bug reports against the snapshot that RH uses than for >gcc-2.95.x simply due the large userbase of RH. > >Franz. -- Nick Ing-Simmons Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.