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[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

Once again, so?  That doesn't mean that its not gcc, or that the code it
produces won't run on other boxes.

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