From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 3 8:39:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096F637B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 08:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15HSGo-000DSd-00 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:39:22 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f63FdL239559 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:39:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:39:21 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cygnus compiler? Message-ID: <20010703163921.B39318@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010703144315.A37456@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010703172715.W40756@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010703172715.W40756@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:27:15PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:27:15PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: | > I saw a note that RH Linux aquired the Cygnus compiler. What is the deal | > with this? How is it different/better/worse than gcc? | | How about posting URLs? The article had nothing else to say on this, and I thought it was public knowledge anyway. | FWIW, Red Hat acquired Cygnus, compiler and all, quite a while ago Ah, that's what I thought. | also included a "non-official" gcc (called gcc-2.96-RH or some such | thing) with their 7.0 and 7.1 releases, because gcc-2.95.x wasn't good | enough (particularly for C++) and gcc-3.0 wasn't ready. Maybe that's | what you're thinking of. gcc-3.0 has now been released, and though | Red Hat got a lot of flak (even from the gcc developers) for "jumping | the gun", it is possible that the additional feedback helped gcc3 get | finished faster. Okay, I wasn't sure if the Cygnus compiler was a different version of gcc (code forking), and advance release version (evidently), or something altogether different. Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message