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"M. R. Brown" wrote:

> There is no 2.96 except the Red Hat maintained version of GCC

IIRC mandrake ships it also -

> but if
> you're saying that Red Hat's compiler works, more power to you.

Not only me, but such notables as Alan Cox -

It's a fine compiler, and I'm a bit puzzled at the
anti-gcc-2.96 hysteria - aside from some initial
bugs (quickly fixed) in the old guiness release.

Here's a heads-up for those interested -

http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html

Regards,

jjs


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