Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 23:37:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: " Stephen P. Butler" <stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC version with FreeBSD. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960511233624.14985I-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960511205922.8316A-100000@platon>
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On Sat, 11 May 1996, Stephen P. Butler wrote: > The NEWS file supplied with GCC 2.7.2 says that FreeBSD on x86 support > was added with version 2.7.0, but FreeBSD seems to ship with version > 2.6.3. Are there any particular reasons for this or have the > distributions just not been updated yet? I think the going reasoning is that it's still too buggy, and 2.6.3 is working, so they are following the old maxim "If it isn't broke, don't fix it." :-) Anyone else got a better idea? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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