Re: strange files, XFS bug?

[Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 03 May 2001 11:30:49 -0400, you wrote:

>See http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-2.96.html. So why would ANYBODY
>use 2.96?

That statement is merely warning people that the official gcc people
don't support 2.96, nothing more.

Simply, you use 2.96 if you want:

 - the best ISO C and ISO C++ standards conformance currently
available on Linux from the gcc family

 - the advantages of all the improvements in code generation that have
happened since egcs.  In particular, Intel paid for a new code
generation backend that first appeared in the 2.95 series.

 - it is a stable compiler.  A search through the Red Hat bugzilla
entries shows that most complaints about 2.96 are actually
non-standards compliant code.  Also, several distributions now ship
with either 2.95 or 2.96, with no problems.

 - far better non-IA32 support (one of the reasons Red Hat created
2.96 was so that they could use one version of the compiler on all the
platforms they support).

The bigger question is why would anyone with a 2.4 based kernel still
be using any of the egcs releases.