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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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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