egcs-1.0.1 release

January 6, 1998


We are pleased to announce the release of egcs-1.0.1.


egcs is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers
using an open development model to accelerate development and testing
of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.


egcs-1.0.1 is a minor update to the egcs-1.0 compiler to fix a few
critical bugs and add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux. Changes since
the egcs-1.0 release:


        * Add support for Red Hat 5.0 Linux and better support for Linux
        systems using glibc2.


        * Compatability with both egcs-1.0 and gcc-2.8 libgcc exception handling
        interfaces (see below for further discussion).


        * Various bugfixes in the x86, hppa, mips, and rs6000/ppc backends.


        * A few machine independent bugfixes, mostly to fix code generation bugs
        when building Linux kernels or glibc.


        * Fix a few critical exception handling and template bugs in the C++
        compiler.


        * Fix Fortran namelist bug on alphas.


        * Fix build problems on x86-solaris systems.


To avoid future compatibility problems, we strongly urge anyone who is
planning on distributing shared libraries that contain C++ code to
upgrade to egcs-1.0.1 first (see
http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/egcs-1.0.1.html for details about the
compatability issues as well as additional information about the
bugfixes since the egcs-1.0 release).




egcs contains many improvements and features not found in gcc-2.7 and
even the soon to be released gcc-2.8 compilers.


      * Integrated C++ runtime libraries, including support for most major
          linux systems!
      * The integrated libstdc++ library includes a verbatim copy of
          SGI's STL release.
      * Integrated GNU Fortran compiler
      * New instruction scheduler
      * New alias analysis code


See the egcs web page for a more complete list of new features,
installation instructions, build/test status, caveats, mailing lists,
etc. http://www.cygnus.com/egcs




You can ftp egcs-1.0.1 either as a full release, or as diffs from the
egcs-1.0 release from the following sites:


Master site:
US (California) ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs


Alternate site:
US (Massachusetts) cambridge.cygnus.com:/pub/egcs


Direct Mirrors:
US (east coast) ftp.goof.com:/pub/pcg/egcs
US (Arizona) ftp.ninemoons.com:/pub/egcs
US (California) ftp.yggdrasil.com:/mirrors/site/ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs
UK sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/gnu/cygnus/egcs
Austria gd.tuwien.ac.at:/gnu/egcs
France ftp.ilog.fr:/pub/Mirrors/egcs
France ftp.lip6.fr:/pub/egcs
Czech Republic sunsite.mff.cuni.cz:/GNU/cygnus/egcs
Denmark sunsite.auc.dk:/pub/egcs
Germany (Berlin) ftp.fu-berlin.de:/unix/languages/egcs
Germany ftp.gwdg.de:/pub/cygnus/egcs
Poland (Warsaw) sunsite.icm.edu.pl:/pub/programming/egcs
Sweden ftp.sunet.se:/pub/gnu/egcs




Sites which mirror indirectly via ftp.goof.com:
Japan ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp:/pub/lang/C/pcg/egcs
France ftp.maisel.int-evry.fr:/pub/linux/pentium/egcs
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