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[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
% On 01/29/03 19:42, Kurt Wall wrote:
% >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
% 
% so?

The GCC project never released 2.96. It was a Red Hat thing. While
it might have been "standards compliant" in the sense that it emitted
code the complies with ANSI/ISO C and C++ standard, it was certainly
not an official GCC release.

Kurt
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