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   "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:50:16 +0300
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Subject: Re: Upcoming gcc-3.1
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On 10 May 2002 at 17:20, Andrew Cottrell wrote:

> > > If there are no problems reported between now and the next rebuild I do
> I
> > > will update the GCC at clio on the 2.04 page to the prerelease 3.1.
> >
> > If the 2.04 page is supposed to be used for production, perhaps you
> > shouldn't add a prerelease version of a major GCC release there.  At
> > least not _instead_ of a stable version.
> 
> Andris's version is built with LIBC so it is a 2.04 release so to speak of.
> I should put a link in there when it gets a bit more stable in a few weeks
> time.
> 

My binaries of gcc-3.1 prerelease are built using DJGPP v2.03 (only
definition of _va_list in sys/djtypes.h is updated). I don't see any problems
to build it with v2.04 from CVS. 

About stability. GCC-3.1 prerelease binaries seems to be stable enough for me.
My earlier experience shows that beta testing (and even using released 
binaries) does not reveal real troubles easily (example my bug with 
std::ofstream which make it almost unuseable were not reported for a 
several months)

Anyway gcc-3.1 release should happen soon.

One of biggest problems with gcc-3.X is that debugging support with GDB seems
to be "bitrotted". For example debugging with -gdwarf-2 of some my C++ programs 
works Ok only with -O0. Optimization causes GDB to crash often (I'm using GDB-
5.2 now) or simply quitting without any message.

Andris