Re: [OT] Re: Which kernel (Linus or ac)?

[J . A . Magallon]

On 20011012 J Sloan wrote:
>After this post we should take it offline and
>let the s/n ratio on lkml settle back down to
>a dull roar - apologies for the noise, this is
>the last post on this dead horse.
>
>"T. A." wrote:
>
>
>Here is a heads-up for the benefit of those wondering
>about gcc-2.96:
>
>http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html
>

Nice, a bunch of comments about the front end. But you miss the point
that what was broken in gcc-2.96 was the back end (the optimizer). 
And you missed that it needed about 50 updates to get a real compiler.
gcc that ships with RH 7.1 generates bad code in optimized mode. Do not
remember the exact post in LKML, but I saw 2 lines of code that made gcc
put the user initialization of a variable before the automatic one to zero.

If you want a good distro, take Mandrake 8.1.

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