Yes it did ship with the 2.96 gcc. Or at least that is what is on the
distribution I installed.
Paul Anderson
Bret Hughes wrote:
> Sent to the bash list.
> Anyone else see this? Did RH 7 ship with gcc 2.96? I wonder how big a deal
> this really is?
>
> Bret
>
> Art Wildman wrote:
>
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.html
> >
> > It has come to our attention that some GNU/Linux distributions are
> > currently shipping with ``GCC 2.96''.
> >
> > We would like to point out that GCC 2.96 is not a formal GCC release nor
> > will there ever be such a release. Rather, GCC 2.96 has been the code-
> > name for our development branch that will eventually become GCC 3.0.
> >
> > Current snapshots of GCC, and any version labeled 2.96, produce object
> > files that are not compatible with those produced by either GCC 2.95.2 or
> > the forthcoming GCC 3.0. Therefore, programs built with these snapshots
> > will not be compatible with any official GCC release. Actually, C and
> > Fortran code will probably be compatible, but code in other languages,
> > most notably C++ due to incompatibilities in symbol encoding (``mangling''),
> > the standard library and the application binary interface (ABI), is likely
> > to fail in some way. Static linking against C++ libraries may make a
> > binary more portable, at the cost of increasing file size and memory use.
> >
> > To avoid any confusion, we have bumped the version of our current
> > development branch to GCC 2.97.
> >
> > Please note that both GCC 2.96 and 2.97 are development versions; we
> > do not recommend using them for production purposes. Binaries built
> > using any version of GCC 2.96 or 2.97 will not be portable to systems
> > based on one of our regular releases.
> >
> > If you encounter a bug in a compiler labeled 2.96, we suggest you
> > contact whoever supplied the compiler as we can not support 2.96
> > versions that were not issued by the GCC team.
> >
> > Please see http://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html if you want to use our
> > latest snapshots. We suggest you use 2.95.2 if you are uncertain.
> >
> > The GCC Steering Committee <http://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html>
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: gcc 2.96 comment from GCC steering committee
> > Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:26:53 -0500
> > From: Gerald Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Organization: VA Linux Systems
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.html
> >
> > Cheers, jerry
> > --
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