[ale] egcs-1.0 Release (fwd)

Eric Zundel Ayers eric at compgen.com
Thu Dec 4 09:28:14 EST 1997


Does anyone have it downloaded where they can see if it supports
#pragma pack() out of the box?

-Eric.

Chris Ricker writes:
 > On  4 Dec, Omar Loggiodice wrote:
 > > Hi Folks!
 > > 
 > >    The egcs compiler (C++,C,Objc,Fortan) release is here! Including member
 > > template support, STL, and a host of other improvements!
 > > As you probably know, egcs is a spinoff of the GNU gcc compiler 
 > > project.
 > > 
 > 
 > Just as a caution ;-).
 > 
 > I've been using the egcs snapshots for a while now.  I've compiled some
 > of my code with the snapshots and with gcc and compared the times for
 > each binary.  Egcs does tend to produce faster binaries.
 > 
 > On the other hand, some software packages from the net will compile
 > under gcc and fail under egcs.
 > 
 > later,
 > chris
 > 
 > --
 > Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu
 > 






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