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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12
To: philb@gnu.org (Philip Blundell)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:54:28 +0100 (BST)
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> >Why ? It works in the 2.96 snapshots. So 2.96+ is fine.
> 
> GCC snapshots have called themselves 2.97 since last September.  "2.96" just 
> means that it's some random old version.  Yours happens to work; there's no 
> guarantee that everybody else's will too.

2.97+ are also all random snapshots most of which dont actually work. Im 
obviously missing a point here.

The compilers people actually get shipped on the whole do work at least for C
from egcs upwards.

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