On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, at 20:16 (GMT +0100), Jonathan Gift wrote:
> I heard 7.0 had a lot of problems. I hope or should expect them to be
> fixed by 7.1. One was the compiler... I don't remember the details. Just
> that a lot of people were sort of p*ssed off.
A lot of problems means pushing it. It had some, with glibc and the
compiler. The one with the compiler was that this version had more strict
rules, and the kernel (2.2) wasn't exactly written by the book, but
compiled with earlier versions of gcc as they were more permissive.
Good code DID compile, even though sometimes, some idiotic warnings spew
out.
An example is xchat (the IRC app) that runs just fine compiled with either
2.95 or or 2.96.
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