In article <19418@castle.ed.ac.uk>, eonu24@castle (I Reid) writes:
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>..... what can gcc 2.0 do for me that 1.40 can't

Nested functions and other new extensions, more optimizations, more
helpful error messages, builtins for mem* etc. (not sure if these are
for the 386), better fp support, etc. etc.  Dunno about Linux specifically.

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>..... is 2.0 stable (I remeber it being described as barely past alpha)

It's not stable and probably has more bugs than 1.40 which is a
production compiler.  Gcc 2.1 should be coming out RSN, though, with
probably some bugs fixed and some new ones implemented.

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>..... anything else you think i should know about it?

It doesn't have linux as a choice in config.sub or configure.  Someone
who is using it for Linux should send the diffs to make ./configure
i386-linux work (or whatever it is) to rms ASAP - minix is a supported
OS in gcc2 and Linux shouldn't be any worse ;-)

//Jyrki