On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:12:09PM -0600, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> When I saw this I asked the kernel hackers here at work about this.
> What they tell me is this in a nutshell and edited for space.
> a: gcc has been nearly completely integrated into egcs
> b: egcs compiles both C, and C++
> c: Noone would do kernel/device driver or other low-level hacking in C++
>
> So fear not young jedi, the rebelion is far from crushed.
Snippet from the GCC Home page[1]:
In April 1999, the egcs steering committee was appointed by the
FSF as the official GNU maintainer for GCC. At that time GCC was
renamed from the "GNU C Compiler" to the "GNU Compiler Collection"
and received a new mission statement.
Currently GCC contains front-ends for C, C++, Objective C, Chill,
Fortran, and Java (GCJ).
With regards to egcs, it was rolled back into gcc back at release
3.95 in July of 1999[2]. In other words, there is no such thing as
EGCS any more.
Snippet from the g++(1)[3]:
NAME
g++ - GNU project C++ Compiler
SYNOPSIS
g++ [option | filename ]...
DESCRIPTION
The C and C++ compilers are integrated; g++ is a script to
call gcc with options to recognize C++. gcc processes
Other Links of interes:
GCC FAQ-o-Matic:
What is the Relationship between GCC and EGCS?
http://gcc.gnu.org/fom_serv/cache/8.html
Front-ends to GCC:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/frontends.html
RESOURCES
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[1] GCC Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
[2] GCC Releases: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html
[3] Manpage for g++(1)
--
Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>
http://www.wookimus.net/
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