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[Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>]

>From owner-rtl Fri Jun  8 01:29:33 2001
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Minich, Raymond C wrote:

> Hey y'all..........
>
> Al Stevens in the latest issue (July 2001, pg 116) of DDJ kinda puts light
  ^^^^^^^^^^ Pardon my ignorance, who is Al Stevens?

> on the GCC issue with regards to Red Hat 7.0.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
The original question was about RedHat 7.1

>
> I'm not here to plug DDJ, just to let you know that with all the compiler
> issue traffic that's been gracing my CRT there's a detailed explanation that
> may be plausible.
>
> He says the default gcc compiler that shipped with RH7.0 was "not blessed by
> the GCC project and not capable of compiling the Linux Kernel". "Red Hat 7.0
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That is correct statement wrt 2.2.x which was a default kernel in RedHat7.1

> .... unusable as development platform".  However kgcc is in the distribution
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I would argue that this is a dubious statement. The whole reason gcc2.96
was created is to make (widely) available a C and C++ compiler which is
close to current C and C++ standards (read bero web page). And as such
it was a favor to developers.

Unfortunately 2.2.x kernel had bugs that prevented it from being compiled
by gcc2.96. That is why RH had to include an older compiler (egcs1.1.2).

> and is "a renamed version of GCC 2.95.2"  "Red Hat installs [kgcc] if you
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
RedHat never shipped gcc 2.95.2, kgcc is a renemed egcs1.1.2 (try kgcc -v).

> specify you want to do kernel development".
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That is the only 100% correct statement in the quoted text.
Note that in RedHat 7.1 default kernel is 2.4.2 and gcc2.96 compiles 2.4.x
kernels correctly.

>
> I sure hope i put the quotes in the right place to comply with the "Fair Use
> Doctrine' :>)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ray Minich

Regards,

Dmitri.

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