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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: My program produces nonsense with 3.0.3
Date: 18 Jan 2002 17:46:04 GMT
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Rodeo Red <rodeored AT netstep DOT net> wrote:

> The compiler took twice as long, the the program it produced was twice
> as big, and when I ran my program, it took 50% longer and turned the
> begining of the web pages into gibberish. (A repeating pattern which,
> strangly had the word java in it.)

This could all be caused by changes in GCC 3 to get it closer to ANSI
C++ compliance.  Hard, if not impossible to tell, without seeing the
source code and the exact kind of misbehaviour.

> the problem is a bug in GCC 3.0.3 ? Did I perhaps download a beta
> version ? 

No. But it's still relatively new code, so bugs are obviously more
probable than in older versions.

> Is  GCC-2.95.2 considered old ? 

No. It could be considered "stable", though.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.