From: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Message-Id: <199706051558.AA231996281@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: New version of DJGPP?
To: blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se (Peter Palotas)
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 8:58:01 PDT
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19970606152013.2af75d70@hem1.passagen.se>; from "Peter Palotas" at Jun 5, 97 4:28 pm
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> But I take it that you are not going to tell me what things are being
> worked on right now, or!? ;)

Well, typically (I think) DJGPP releases lag a little behind their 
UNIX counterparts.  Just recently (last month), binutils 2.8, followed by
2.8.1 were released.  So, those should show up in the next couple of months 
I would guess.  The only new thing in their I can think of is 
borland style template handling by the linker.  You can always download
the regular sources and rebuild yourself (not too difficult, I use the new 
linker).

The compiler itself is still a long way off from being released.  New stuff of note
has to do with optimization and profiling.  Namely, taking the output of a profile
run and feeding that information to the compiler so it can generate better code.
Also, the pentium optimization option will be in there.  The PCG version of the 
compiler is a good example of whats gone in there.

If you are looking for something like native windows support without RSX, well,
better start coding :)


Andrew