From: NOSPAMsl AT psycode DOT com (Gili)
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Subject: Re: DJ port of GCC 2.8.0?
Date: 21 Jan 1998 16:26:39 GMT
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:52:15, Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de> 
wrote:

> Incidentally, why do you have to rebuild gcc with itself?  Is it just
> to get the better optimisation, or is there some reason that building
> it with the old version doesn't work properly?

	Myself, I need GCC 2.8.0 for exception-handling. Many of my libraries
use them, but under GCC 2.7.2.1 which is provided with DJGPP they are 
impossible to use. I get an internal compiler error.

Gili