Re: Difference in mangling

From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:01:23 -0400

lomat wrote:
> Hi Lew,
>
> Thanks for the efforts.
> I have a basic question here.
> I already tried searching it, but wasn't succesful.
> What is the difference between GCC and EGCS? Where can I obtain EGCS
> binaries from?

GCC is the "Gnu Compiler Collection". Back in the days of GCC 2.x, some
developers got tired of waiting for The Free Software Foundation to upgrade
GCC, so they forked the GCC 2 code, added in some enhancements, and called
it EGCS ("Extended Gnu Compiler System", IIRC).

EGCS got folded back into the GNU GCC around GCC 2.95 (April 1999).

Take a look at http://gcc.gnu.org/ and http://gcc.gnu.org/news.html

As for where you can get the EGCS binaries, try your distro's source sites.
Look for an egcs package or a GCC v 2.91 package (don't go for the RedHat
GCC 2.96, it was a "bleeding edge" port of an internal release of the GCC
-pre 3.0 compiler that caused /lots/ of compatability problems; it's not
what you are looking for). 

-- 
Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)

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