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[Off-topic] What's the story with GCC 2.95.4? -- WAS: Which compiler for

To: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Off-topic] What's the story with GCC 2.95.4? -- WAS: Which compiler for kernel with xfs?
From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:06:04 -0500
Cc: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>, "Olaf Fr±czyk" <olaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: SmithConcepts, Inc.
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Florian Weimer wrote:
> Linus strongly favors gcc 2.95.3 over egcs because it has got
> fewer bugs.  YMMV.

Hey, off-topic post/Qs, but maybe some of you guys know ...

1)  What's the deal with GCC 2.95.4?  I've seen at least one distro,
Mandrake (7.2 was it?), ship with it.  I heard it wasn't really
"in-line" with GCC 2.95.3 or at least not recommended.  I just grabbed
SuSE 7.3 and it seems they are still [smartly] using 2.95.3.

2)  Other than that, is GCC 3.02 supposed to be the "most backward
compatible" release now?  I just downloaded the latest MPlayer (a great
media player if you haven't found one yet ;-) and even they seem to give
it an indirect "thumbs up (at least versus 3.00/3.01, let alone 2.96, in
their GCC 2.96 "rant" page, with foul language I might add so you _know_
they hate it ;-).

3)  Lastly, anyone know where one can get pre-made 2.95.3 RPMs for
RedHat 7.x?

Thanx ...

-- TheBS

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