Followup to "What is GCC 1.42 good for on SPARC?"

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From: Stew Ellis
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:09

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The answer to the above turned out to be "very little."  A number of kind
helpful souls suggested -fpcc-struct-return and -traditional.  Neither of
these was enough to get the two troublesome applications to compile
correctly.  The two apps were xfractint and an ftp client with readline
support.  Neither would operate correctly with 1.42.  I spent a few hours
last night and this morning compiling and installing the C part of GCC 2.3.1
and am happy to report that both apps compile without a hitch.

  I have been reading the bug reports in g.g.bugs and was somewhat afraid of
them, that was why I installed 1.42, which was characterized as a stable
finished product rather than alpha or beta.  I still wonder what good 1.42
is on SPARC?  How fast do bug fixes come out on GCC?  Should I stay with
2.3.1 or should I backgrade to 2.2.2?  


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