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People have been waiting for GCC 2.0 for a year.  Now it's
available for anonymous ftp from /pub/gnu/gcc-2.0.tar.Z
on prep.ai.mit.edu.  There are no diffs from version 1--such
diffs would be too large to be useful.


Version 2 of GCC can generate code for the IBM PC/RT, the IBM RS/6000,
the Motorola 88000, the Acorn RISC machine (not fully tested), the AMD
29000 and the HP-PA (700 or 800), in addition to several machines
supported by version 1 (Motorola 68000, Vax, Sparc, National
Semiconductor 32000, Intel 386 and 860, and Mips).  Ports for the IBM
370, the Intel 960, the Clipper, the Tron (a Japanese standard
computer architecture) and the NCUBE are on their way, but there is no
estimate of when they will be available.  Note that using GCC to
compile for the HP-PA requires as yet unreleased versions of other GNU
software such as the assembler and linker.

Version 2 can generate output files in a.out, COFF, ECOFF, ELF, XCOFF,
VAX-VMS and OSF-Rose formats when used with a suitable assembler.  It
can produce debugging information in several formats: BSD stabs, COFF,
ECOFF, ECOFF with stabs symbols, VAX-VMS and DWARF.  (We may support
XCOFF for the RS/6000 in the future.)

Version 2 can be easily configured as a cross-compiler, running on one
platform while generating code for another.

Version 2 supports compatible calling conventions for function calling
and return values on the Sparc (unlike version 1) as well as the other
machine types.

Early testing of GCC Version 2.0 indicates that it produces faster
code for SPARC computers than Sun's latest released compilers (both
bundled and unbundled).  It is also the fastest known compiler for
the Motorola 88k.


In addition to ANSI C, GCC Version 2.0 includes support for the C++
and Objective C languages.  Objective C is an object-oriented language
which adds to C features similar to Smalltalk.  The front end for the
Objective C language was donated by NeXT Computers, Inc., which uses
GCC as the basis for their NeXTstep operating system.  (Run-time
support for the Objective C language is still under development.)

GCC extends the C language to support nested functions, non-local
gotos, taking the address of program labels, and unnamed structures as
function arguments (among other things).  There are also many new
warnings for frequent programming mistakes.

GCC Version 2 can produce position-independent code for several types
of CPU: 68000, 88000, 80386, Sparc, and RS/6000.  Supporting PIC on
additional suitable CPU types is not too difficult a task.