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In <1-9202220854.AA25765@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:

>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.
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