Hi Peter

On Wednesday, June 30, 1999 5:34 PM you wrote

Hello, folks!

The EGCS is going to release egcs-1.2 as gcc-2.95.

How much sense does it make to continue support for (a) gcc-2.8.1 and (b) egcs-1.1.x?

Since it causes work to continue with (a) and (b), I'd prefer to switch completely to gcc-2.95.

Comments? Objections?

Receintly I purchased the latest distribution of SuSE: 6.1 It contains:

GCC 2.7.2.3-36 GPC 990118-0 egcs 990315-9

Their comment on egcs:

"This is the present state of the egcs-compiler-develement Unfortunately it is not advisable to compile a 2.0.x kernel with this compiler yet."

According to the file list egcs 990315 is egcs-2.91.66

Would expect the other distributions to be somewhat simular. Therefore, why not bundle a cut-down version of gcc-xxx with gpc? Then YOU control which version of gcc is being used and all the receiver would have to do ( hopefully ) is unpack and compile

Thanks, Russ russwhit@mind.net