My advice, which is probably worth just about what you're paying for it, is to stick with 2.96.
Probably for 99.9% of the programs you are likely to try it with, gcc 3.0 will be fine, and possibly better, than 2.96. But that 0.1% might be a real killer. 2.96 might not (perhaps) produce as efficient code as 3.0, but my experience is that at least the code always works. Code that makes heavy use of the C++ STL and exception handling sometimes spontaneously aborts under 3.0. I have, in fact, removed 3.0 from my LM 8.1 system. In six months maybe I'll try 3.x again, but I can't recommend it at the moment. Doc Evans On 3 Jan 02, at 14:10, Marc wrote: > Hi, > > I am not a developer but reguralarly compile src.rpm packages on my > Mandrake 8.1 system. I was wondering what the difference is between > gcc-2.96 and gcc 3.0. > > Is it save to remove gcc-2.96 and install gcc3. Or is it saver to stick > with the old gcc-2.96. > > Marc > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax: +1 781 240 0527 --------------------------------------------------------------
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