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From: palowoda@netcom.com (Bob Palowoda)
Subject: Re: gcc 2.7.2p vs. gcc 2.6.3
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:05:05 GMT
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Andreas Klemm (andreas@sunny.gun.de) wrote:
: In article <4sl70i$301@bofh.noc.best.net> rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes:

: > From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
: > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
: > Date: 18 Jul 1996 04:26:10 -0700
: > Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
: > 
: > I've installed the pgcc port and i've used it sparingly; while i know
: > that replacing the system binaries with new stuff is usually not a
: > good idea, i still wondered as to whether, since pgcc claims to be
: > optimized for the Pentium chip, would there be any significant
: > improvement if it were made the system default C compiler?

: I think pgcc isn't mature enough to make it to the default compiler !
: Another disadvantage is, that a 'make world' doesn't run without 
: errors. I think you should wait, until gcc-2.7.3 will be released.
: If I remember right, the new gcc will be included into -current sooner
: or later ;)

Ummm, gcc hasn't had a release sence Nov 95.  They must have
died or something. 

---Bob

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