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Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> At 20:14 23/11/01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > >
> > > If there is a performance hit, it's not enough to worry about.
> >
> >except egcs-1.1.2 (2.91.6) compiles stuff at almost twice the speed
> >of gcc3.  The person who breaks egcs-1.1.2 for kernel builds owes
> >me a quad Xeon, thanks very much.
> 
> Have you read the current Documentation/Changes? It says "the 2.5 tree is
> likely to drop egcs-1.1.2 workarounds". Whoever wrote that seems to be
> wanting to break it in the near future...

Well that's great news.  To whom do I send my shipping address?

Actually, I have negligible interest in working on something which
won't be useful to real people for three years, so that works out,
doesn't it?

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