linux from nothing

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
% 
% Redhat-7.0 had a seriously broken gcc implimentation.  8.0 has a beta 
% release of glibc.  All the intermediate releases had no such problems, 
% and use standards compliant releases of gcc & glibc.

I beg your pardon, but Red Hat 7.3 still used GCC 2.96:
$ rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-7.3-1
$ rpm -q gcc
gcc-2.96-110

Kurt
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