[ale] egcs-1.0 Release (fwd)

[Omar Loggiodice]

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Chris Ricker wrote:

> On  4 Dec, Omar Loggiodice wrote:
> > Hi Folks!
> > 
> >    The egcs compiler (C++,C,Objc,Fortan) release is here! Including member
> > template support, STL, and a host of other improvements!
> > As you probably know, egcs is a spinoff of the GNU gcc compiler 
> > project.
> > 
> 
> Just as a caution ;-).
> 
> I've been using the egcs snapshots for a while now.  I've compiled some
> of my code with the snapshots and with gcc and compared the times for
> each binary.  Egcs does tend to produce faster binaries.
> 
> On the other hand, some software packages from the net will compile
> under gcc and fail under egcs.
> 

Yes, that is true. Especially code unsing libg++ which has been
deprecated. However, egcs is not alone in this area, when gcc release 2.8
comes out the same problem will occur. It is not rare for new feature
releases -- of gcc,borland,microsoft, or any other compiler -- to force
some code changes when a new feature release comes out, especially when it
relates to C++. The fact that egcs was released before gcc 2.8 (thanks
God <grin>) just hides the issue.

Omar

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