From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: GCC 2.8.0 (2.8.1's out)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:04:16 -0800
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B Hodge wrote in message <6dnuch$pmi$1 AT pulp DOT ucs DOT ualberta DOT ca>...
>Andrew Cottrell <acottrel AT magna DOT com DOT au> wrote:
>Would waiting a while for the whole bug thing to be sorted out before I
>upgrade be prudent?
Maybe.  2.8 had a really long development time.  The code generation engine
is pretty solid.  Most of the bugs are config related.

>  Course, I'm waiting for PGCC to come up to GCC 2.8
>spec. before I go reinstalling.
Huh?  Are you waiting for PGCC to be GCC based again?  Not going to happen.
PGCC is based on EGCS, which if anything, is even newer than gcc 2.8.