Re: [Flightgear-devel] The infamous gcc-2.96

[Tony P. <ap...@ea...>]

On Friday 10 August 2001 07:59 pm, you wrote:
> Tony Peden writes:
> > FWIW, the experience I've had with the gcc 2.96 that Mandrake shipped in
> > 8.0 has been pretty good.  It seems to compile some things slower, but
> > the code runs well.
>
> I think the Redhat people have been working pretty hard trying to fix
> the problems with gcc-2.96, it's unfortunate though that the whole
> situation caused so many problems for so many people ... typically the
> default compiler just works under linux, so it's one of the last
> things you'd expect to cause trouble ...

Yes, I'll be the first to agree that RedHat made a mistake in shipping 2.96 
when they did and I'm not entirely sure that Mandrake should have with their 
8.0 release.  But they did, and I thought it was fair to point out that it 
seems to work fairly well.

>
> Curt.

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