Re: [HACKERS] problem compiling with egcs 1.1.1

> > gcc version egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release) has no problem
> > to compile 6.4, and 1.1.1 release also compiles 6.4 fine.
> > Today I installed 1.1.1 and recompile 6.4 - no problem !
> > Probably egcs people fixed the problem.
> 
> What optimization level do you use? Do you find that the newer version
> of egcs does a good job with floating point rounding, or are the
> regression tests filled with ".999999" results? I much preferred the
> gcc-2.7.x behavior wrt graceful rounding, and hope that at some point
> egcs will also have it...

Why do people use egcs?  It looks like an experimental version of gcc2,
and I am not big on experimental compilers.  I want something that
works, 100% of the time.

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