Bug 18803

Summary:	gcc 2.96 is a development version
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Derrien <derrien>
Component:	gcc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0
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Description Derrien 2000-10-10 13:06:05 UTC

From http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html :
...
Please note that both GCC 2.96 and 2.97 are development versions; we 
do not recommend using them for production purposes.
Binaries built using any version of GCC 2.96 or 2.97 will not be portable 
to systems based on one of our regular releases.
...

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2000-10-10 13:37:21 UTC

That's not a bug, it was intentionally released.
We were stabilizing that compiler for half a year.
For reason why we chose to ship this compiler, see
http://www.lwn.net/2000/1005/a/rh-tools.php3
We do recomment using this compiler for production purposes,
it is quite stable for us.

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2000-10-23 07:50:44 UTC

*** Bug 19554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***