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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:29:35 -0800
From: Tim Prince <tprince AT computer DOT org>
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To: "Laurence F. Wood" <LaurenceWood AT SunyataSystems DOT Com>
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Subject: Re: When will GCC 3 ship with Cygwin?
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Laurence F. Wood wrote:

 > GCC 3 has problems according to: 
http://aros.ca.sandia.gov/~cljanss/mpqc/mpqc-html-2.0.1/compile.html#compile
 >


That Sandia page deprecates only gcc-3.0 and 3.01, not the current 
releases, and appears to have little to do with cygwin. Even the mpi lam 
pages would give you more current information about gcc versions for mpi 
on linux, if that's your concern. Many linux users have moved beyond 
2.95 already.  Certainly, it's a big step from 2.95.x to 3.x.x for 
people who care about details of the C++ libraries, but I don't see any 
problem for the mpi applications I'm dealing with on Windows or linux in 
moving to current releases when the system maintainers are ready. I see 
more incentive to move to gcc-3.1, but I won't argue that it's time to 
do so now.

I don't see that the proposal to drop support for gcc versions using 
coff is aimed directly at cygwin, nor do I see how it should affect our 
attitude about which gcc version to prefer.


-- 
Tim Prince
tprince AT computer DOT org



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