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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:09 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: GCC3?
>"Matthews, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> I was under the assumption that GCC 3.0.2 or GCC 2.95.3 would be the
>>> best bets for stability. I thought that the use of GCC 2.96 was
>>> discouraged.
>The other way round.
>--
>Trond Eivind Glomsrød
>Red Hat, Inc.
I found the below message on GNU's GCC page. From reading this I
would think that GCC 2.96 would not be an ideal compiler to use. I know
from my own experience that some of the libraries shipped with the GCC 2.96
on Red Hat 7.0 had a bug handling threads. That alone cost me a few weeks
to track down.
I'd like to know what versions of GCC other people on the list are
using. I'm currently using GCC 3.0.2 and luckily haven't experienced any
problems yet.
---from http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html
GCC 2.96
October 6th, 2000
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
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