From: Andris Pavenis <andris AT stargate DOT astr DOT lu DOT lv>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Fwd: recommended compiler (WAS: Re: When will PGCC be merged with EGCS?)
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:23:28 +0300
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Here is one message from egcs mailing list which as I think could be
interesting here as the related questions were discussed recently
(whether we should change to egcs for DJGPP)

Andris 

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Subject: Re: When will PGCC be merged with EGCS?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 11:00:04 -0600
From: Jeffrey A Law <law AT upchuck DOT cygnus DOT com>


In message <199905071336 DOT JAA06313 AT ll DOT mit DOT edu>you write:
  > Now this is an interesting statement. I wonder what it means? I heard that 
  > gcc and egcs have been merged but I don't see any evidence of that.
More correctly, there is an agreement between the FSF & the egcs project for
the egcs project to take over GCC maintenance.

There are still many details to work out.  I'm hoping that we can work out the
first batch of details such that the next major release (what we've been
calling egcs-1.2) will instead be gcc-3.0 (or gcc-2.99, whatever) and would be
available on both prep and the egcs ftp server.

  > Where is the merged version? Or what is the latest version to get?
egcs-1.1.x is the recommended compiler.  gcc-2.8.x is horribly buggy.

jeff