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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: cygnus compiler?
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In-Reply-To: <20010703163921.B39318@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:39:21PM +0100
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j mckitrick said on Jul  3, 2001 at 16:39:21:
> 
> 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.

Originally, the Cygnus compiler was a fork, called egcs.  They were
dissatisfied with the closed nature of "official" gcc development and
its slow progress since the 2.7 releases.  So they forked the code and
had more open, CVS-based development, etc.  But they continued to
transfer their copyrights to the FSF, while they improved it greatly
over the old gcc (and included several compilers -- C++, objC, F77,
etc -- in the same compiler tree) so at some point RMS decided that
it's ok to make them the official GCC maintainers, and they got
reunified with the "official" gcc...

The other thing is the expansion of GCC got changed at that point.
It's now the "GNU Compiler Collection" not the "GNU C Compiler".

R

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