Date:	Sat, 19 Oct 1996 12:40:06 -0400
Message-Id:	<199610191640.MAA13219@delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	DJGPP V2.01 Released

I am pleased to announce that DJGPP Version 2.01 has been sent to
SimTel for redistribution.  It should be at all major SimTel mirrors
within a day.  Let me (dj AT delorie DOT com) know if there are any major
packaging problems that warrant a re-upload.

This version of DJGPP, the culmination of nine months of work,
contains numerous bug fixes and new features.  Also included are
updates to all GNU packages, including some newly ported packages.

The primary FTP site for DJGPP is:

	ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/

All new files are in the v2 and v2gnu directories.  The primary WWW
site for DJGPP is:

	http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

Note that the previous version of DJGPP is still at SimTel, and will
be for a while, until this new release proves itself.  The FSF has
also asked me to inform everyone that the new version of gcc, 2.7.2.1,
exists only as an interim bugfix release, and users should not upgrade
from 2.7.2 to 2.7.2.1 unless they require the bugfixes.  Two are known
to affect djgpp users:

* C++ does not pack structures correctly in 2.7.2.  The <dir.h> header
  has been patched to work around this bug also, so the new gcc may not
  be needed for the common appearance of this bug.

* Certain subexpression optimizations fail under 2.7.2.  This was first
  found in Linux, and is known as the "loop unrolling bug".  DJGPP
  had been modified to supress this optimization, but no longer does
  that, as there were no reported cases of this bug affecting djgpp
  anyway.  If you encounter this problem, try 2.7.2.1, but note that
  it does not optimize as well as 2.7.2 due to this bugfix.

Followups to this announcement should go to djgpp AT delorie DOT com and NOT
to djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com.  To subscribe or unsubscribe to any
djgpp mailing list, send mail to listserv AT delorie DOT com.

Thanks!

DJ
dj AT delorie DOT com

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