[fwd] GCC 2.7.2.1 now available

[Theodore C. Belding]

Don't know if this affects anybody...
-Ted

>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 96 07:44:28 -0400
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>gcc-2.7.2.1.tar.gz, 7,132,291 bytes and gcc-2.7.2-2.7.2.1.diff.gz, 18,029
>bytes, are now available on prep.ai.mit.edu and on the mirror sites below.
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>This version of GCC fixes some major bugs in GCC 2.7.2 that prevent it from
>compiling some common packages on major targets.  Most notably, it disables
>part of a loop optimization that can generate incorrect code under obscure
>circumstances that happen to occur in Linux and fixes problems compiling
>Ghostscript on some machines (such as Alpha).
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>Most bugs reported in GCC 2.7.2, which are less severe, have not been fixed
>in 2.7.2.1, but will be fixed in the next major release of GCC, 2.8.0.
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>You should not switch to this version if you are not having any problems
>with GCC 2.7.2.  Though this new version was tested by a large number of
>GCC pre-testers and the changes between it and GCC 2.7.2 are small and
>believed safe, it is nevertheless the case that GCC 2.7.2 has been much
>more extensively tested than 2.7.2.1.
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Ted Belding                        mailto:address@hidden
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/