From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl, alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
Subject: Re: DJGPP V2.01 Released
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:48:36 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:  <9610211448.aa09034@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

To Alaric, Mark and all the rest:

>>> Two [bugs] are known
>>>to affect djgpp users:
>>
>>Have you fixed the section attribute bug? It was said long ago that
>>the next version would fix this, but it's not on that list :-(
>>
>>The bug was that __attribute__ ((section XXX)) did not work, claiming
>>that this output type did not understand it (when it does really).
>Alaric, it's not THAT easy. This patch is up to FSF not DJ. If FSF applies it,
>so will DJ.
>Bill, did you post it to FSF?
  I understand the DJ actitude, BUT is very very very dificult download and 
remake the compiler, this takes a lot of time, and I guess that the 80% of the 
beginners (less that 1 years involved in C) can't do that.
  So is better if the distribution includes (NOT in v2gnu dir, but in v2 dir) a 
 compilation of GCC 2.7.2 with:
a) Pentium optimization.
b) Section thing fixed.
c) Stabs debug info and other fixes by Robert.
d) Any other useful and tested improvement.
  Adding a great advice: THIS VERSION IS NOT AN OFICIAL FSF ONE.

That's my opinion, and nothing more.

SET


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