Re: RH 5.1

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

kdanner@eosinc.com said:
> I knew I forgot something that was new in RedHat 5.1 . It ships with egcs.
> Great compiler. If you have a pentium, PGCC is even better. Beats the hell
> out of plain old GCC.

I thought of that one this morning too.  You beat me to it.  :-)

For those of you who aren't real up on compilers, one of the
"problems" with gcc is that it doesn't optimize for anything higher
than 486 (on x86).  Supposedly egcs optimizes for Pentium, K6, etc.
It's also supposed to produce much better code on the alpha.

BTW, egcs is just gcc with a lot of enhancements.  In theory, some of
those enhancements might get folded back into the stock gcc tree
eventually.  But don't hold your breath.  :-)

Steve
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