Re: GCC 3.0 released

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <m3wv686k1i.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>, Ronald Cole says...
>
>tmoran@acm.org writes:
>>   Is there a 3.14p yet?
>
>Wait a year.

That's probably a *smidge* harsh. :-)

But the sequence is right. In the past, ACT has released X.YZa releases to all
their supported customers before they started worrying about making X.YZp (the
"student" release). According to what I read in the gcc mailing list, it looks
like 3.14a is a gcc 2.8.1 release, so I would expect 3.14p, when it comes out,
to also be a gcc 2.8.1 release. They do hope to have the gcc 3.x (gnat 3.15p?)
release out within "weeks" though. Hopefully that'll be less than 20 of them.
:-)

However, it also appears that they are also hoping to merge the gnat sources
into the gcc baseline fairly soon. So theoreticly someone could download those
sources and try to put it together themselves earlier. I'm not sure how easy it
would be to get it to work though. I'd think there's probably a good reason why
it isn't using gcc 3 yet...

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