egcs release notes

Last change: 2002-01-26

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From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
Subject: egcs-1.0.1 release

January 6, 1998

We are pleased to announce the release of egcs-1.0.1.

egcs is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers using an
open development model to accelerate development and testing of GNU compilers
and runtime libraries. 

egcs-1.0.1 is a minor update to the egcs-1.0 compiler to fix a few critical
bugs and add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux.  Changes since the egcs-1.0
release:

    * Add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux and better support for Linux
    systems using glibc2.

    * Compatability with both egcs-1.0 and gcc-2.8 libgcc exception handling
    interfaces (see below for further discussion).

    * Various bugfixes in the x86, hppa, mips, and rs6000/ppc backends.

    * A few machine independent bugfixes, mostly to fix code generation bugs
    when building Linux kernels or glibc.

    * Fix a few critical exception handling and template bugs in the C++
    compiler.

    * Fix Fortran namelist bug on alphas.

    * Fix build problems on x86-solaris systems.

To avoid future compatibility problems, we strongly urge anyone who is planning
on distributing shared libraries that contain C++ code to upgrade to egcs-1.0.1
first (see http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/egcs-1.0.1.html for details about the
compatability issues as well as additional information about the bugfixes since
the egcs-1.0 release).


egcs contains many improvements and features not found in gcc-2.7 and
even the soon to be released gcc-2.8 compilers. 

   * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
     linux systems! 
   * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
     SGI's STL release. 
   * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler 
   * New instruction scheduler 
   * New alias analysis code 

See the egcs web page for a more complete list of new features, installation
instructions, build/test status, caveats, mailing lists, etc.
http://www.cygnus.com/egcs


You can ftp egcs-1.0.1 either as a full release, or as diffs from the egcs-1.0
release from the following sites:

Master site:
US (California)         ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs

Alternate site:
US (Massachusetts)      cambridge.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs

Direct Mirrors:
US (east coast)         ftp.goof.com:/pub/pcg/egcs
US (Arizona)            ftp.ninemoons.com:/pub/egcs
US (California)         ftp.yggdrasil.com:/mirrors/site/ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs
UK                      sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/gnu/cygnus/egcs
Austria                 gd.tuwien.ac.at:/gnu/egcs
France                  ftp.ilog.fr:/pub/Mirrors/egcs
France                  ftp.lip6.fr:/pub/egcs
Czech Republic          sunsite.mff.cuni.cz:/GNU/cygnus/egcs
Denmark                 sunsite.auc.dk:/pub/egcs
Germany (Berlin)	ftp.fu-berlin.de:/unix/languages/egcs
Germany 		ftp.gwdg.de:/pub/cygnus/egcs
Poland (Warsaw)		sunsite.icm.edu.pl:/pub/programming/egcs
Sweden			ftp.sunet.se:/pub/gnu/egcs


Sites which mirror indirectly via ftp.goof.com:
Japan                   ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp:/pub/lang/C/pcg/egcs
France                  ftp.maisel.int-evry.fr:/pub/linux/pentium/egcs

From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
Subject: egcs-1.0 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of egcs-1.0. 

egcs is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers using an
open development model to accelerate development and testing of GNU compilers
and runtime libraries. 

An important goal of egcs is to allow wide scale testing of experimental
features and optimizations; therefore, egcs contains some features and
optimizations which are still under development. However, egcs has been
carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to most gcc releases. 

egcs-1.0 contains many improvements and features not found in gcc-2.7 and
even the soon to be released gcc-2.8 compilers. 

   * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
     linux systems! 
   * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
     SGI's STL release. 
   * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler 
   * New instruction scheduler 
   * New alias analysis code 

See the egcs web page for a more complete list of new features, installation
instructions, build/test status, caveats, mailing lists, etc.
http://www.cygnus.com/egcs

You can download egcs-1.0 directly from
ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0

The release should be available on the egcs mirrors sites shortly.
See the egcs home page for a list of mirror sites.

We'd like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features,
test results, bugfixes, documentation updates, web page updates, general
suggestions, etc.  Unfortunately, they're far too numerous to mention by
name.


Questions, comments, etc should be directed to egcs@cygnus.com
Bug reports should be directed to egcs-bugs@cygnus.com