> ``In April 1999, the egcs steering committee was appointed by the FSF as
> the official GNU maintainer for GCC.''
Yes, exactly. i.e. what would have been egcs-1.2 has become gcc-2.95.1,
and the old gcc-2.8.x tree is dead.
> September 3, 1999
> Long time GCC contributors Mark Mitchell and Richard Kenner
> have been given global write permissions. They are authorized
> to install and approve patches to any part of the compiler.
> Richard Kenner will initially be working on merging in the
> remaining changes from the old GCC 2 sources.
>
> If my memory serves me, egcs is based on a gcc 2 snapshot from about
> 9 months ago.
Depends what you mean by `based'. egcs was forked from gcc a *long* time
before that. From gcc/ChangeLog.0:
Sun Aug 10 12:00:20 1997 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)
* egcs project officially starts.
gcc/FSFChangeLog indicates that changes to gcc between that date and Wed
Jan 7 17:09:28 1998 have been merged into what is now gcc-2.95.
The changes that have been made to gcc-2.8 since then have not been
merged in their entirety. *That* is what's still being done (and Richard
Kenner's a damned good person to do it; after all, he did a lot of them.
(Plus, many of those changes to gcc-2.8.x were merges from egcs anyway.)
> The observations are correct though, the generated code is superior and
> it has a different set of bugs.
;) indeed. I like to think a smaller set.
--
`I'm glad you want me to be happy. I'd like you to be happy too.'
--- Nat Lanza, while flaming Larry McVoy on linux-kernel
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