Paul Kelly mentioned:
> gcc has been as good as or better than pgcc for quite a while. pgcc was
> was written back in the days when gcc splintered due to a perception of
> slow progress on the main branch. A number of Linux distributions wound
> up using egcs, partly derived from the pgcc work as I recall. Happiness
> was restored to the world with gcc 2.95 and later.
I do not have the time to follow the compiler "wars", but I notice that I
must use egcs to build 64 bit SPARC code.
GCC 3 should do it, but because it is so "buggy"[1] it is not worth trying
to use unless you really want to track down those compiler errors... :(
- Matthew
[1] "buggy" in the sense that its a feature. Many of the problems with GCC 3
seem to be related to stricter syntax checking. More accurate information
will be appreciated.
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