gcc-2.8.0.tar.gz, 8,477,747 bytes, is now available on prep.ai.mit.edu and all the usual mirror sites.
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New features for Intel x86 family:
Add scheduling parameters for Pentium and Pentium Pro. Support stabs on Solaris-x86. Intel x86 processors running the SCO OpenServer 5 family. Intel x86 processors running DG/UX. Intel x86 using Cygwin32 or Mingw32 on Windows 95 and Windows NT. ^^^^^^^ Yeah! :-)
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My current development GPC passes all PVS conformance tests for ISO-7185 Standard Pascal level 0 and (NEW!) level 1 but two minor ones. My idea is to fix these, make the final beta and release gpc-2.1 even if there are some remaining known bugs. (An incomplete list of those bugs that have prevented me from releasing gpc-2.1 up to now follows below.)
Of course, this plan implies that we must upgrade from gcc-2.7.2.x to gcc-2.8.0 ASAP. I think it is reasonable to continue support for gcc-2.7.2.x as long as this works without too much effort.
Any comments?
1. We did GPC ports based on cygwin32/b18 sources and EGCS before; but failed to maintain them (and never publicly announced them).
2. In an attempt to build win32 GPC's, I tried two routes: extract win32 support from gcc-2.8 betas, plug that in gcc-2.7.2.x sources and build GPC based on that, and port GPC to pre-gcc-2.8. I never fixed the segfaults in the 2.7.2.x based win32 compilers at higher optimization levels, so they were never made public. I have not done (pre)-2.8 based GPC's for the last six months or so.
I am willing to do the 2.8 port once more, but only if we do maintain it this time. I am finishing up a new series of mingw32 GCC-2.8 based tools as we speak; the www pages will be updated this weekend.
By now I'm pretty familiar with GCC2 sources; and if we are cautious, this GPC could run on top of EGCS just as well.
Greetings,
JanJaap
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