gomer> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Jiann-Ming
gomer> Su wrote:
>> I'm not sure why RH went with egcs in 5.1 when Linus has stated
>> publically that there are problems with egcs. If gcc-2.8.1 was stable,
>> why not stick with it? Oh well...
gomer> Uh, Red Hat 5.1 does not default to egcs. The default compiler is
gomer> gcc 2.7.2.3. Slackware 3.5 made the mistake of using egcs by
gomer> default.
on intel, redhat has gcc 2.7 as the default C compiler, and egcs as the C++
compiler. on sparc and alpha, though, it's all egcs.
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