Re: gcc-2.95.2

[Jim Knoble <jmknoble pint-stowp cx>]

Circa 2000-Aug-20 11:07:54 -0400 dixit Jason Jesso:

: I purchased redhat Linux 6.2 which was released around Apr-June 2000.
: On this distribution they have egcs and no gcc. Isn't egcs history now?
: 
: On October 24, 1999 the GCC team released GCC 2.95.2.  All I can find on
: Redhat pages are rpm's for gcc-2.95.1.
: Where are the rpm's for gcc-2.95.2?  Surely it doesn't take almost a
: year to build this update. And why not provide gcc-2.95.2 with the 6.2
: distro??

I suspect the reason why Red Hat Linux 6.2 still uses egcs-1.1.2 is to
maintain binary compatibility across the 6.x series.  Recall that
egcs-1.1.2 broke C++ binary compatibility with gcc-2.7.2.x (and with
one of the earlier egcs versions as well), and that gcc-2.95.x broke it
again.

I also suspect Red Hat doesn't wish to maintain more than two compiler
suites on a given release.  The 5.x series had both gcc-2.7.2.x and
egcs-1.0.x, while the 6.x series has both the egcs-1.0.x suite
(together with libraries and binutils for producing binaries
compatibile with the 5.x series) and egcs-1.1.2.

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