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From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2 in progress
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Martin Blapp wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> > totally wrong, and this won't break things. I'm just a bit startled that
> > this appears out of nowhere (I sure don't recall it being discussed) and
> > just happens, with 10 minutes warning.
>
> The 2.95.3 -> 3.1 prerelease upgrade was a big step.
>
> 3.1 prerelease -> 3.2 is a little step which fixes bugs, make
> kde working (gif support) again, fixes X11 and mozilla ports.

Actually, if 3.2 doesn't use thunks, it's likely to break Mozilla again.
This is really not that big of a deal.  I'll just need to alter a patch,
and update the Mozilla people.

Joe

>
> > I don't mean to be hypercritical here, but I feel that it's fair,
> > considering people are starting to really whine about how late 5.0
> > actually *is* at this point, to begin to ask not even the *hard*
> > questions, but medium firm questions about "gee, is this trip *really*
> > necessary?"
>
> I think yes. Gcc 3.1 prerelease had some nasty bugs.
>
> Martin
>
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