From: Bernie Boudet (list-svgalib@foobar.clara.co.uk)
Date: Tue 10 Oct 2000 - 00:02:35 IST
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:02:44 -0500
"Marian Krivos" <nezmar@internet.alcatel.sk> wrote:
> I have tested svgalib 1.4.3 on my fresh RH 7.0 installation with TNT2M64 and
> this doesn't work properly. Maximum mode that 'vgatest ' offers to me is
> 320x200x256. Previous version runs OK Up to 1280x1024x16M.
>
> Line 485 in file 'keyboard.c' stop compiling with error in parser. I must
> add one space before and one space behind the '...' symbol to correct this
> issue. GCC ver. is 2.96.
It seems Red Hat decided to release a beta version of gcc and it has
caused some problems. This message is from the gcc-announce list:
> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 01:58:11 +0200 (CEST)
> Subject: GCC 2.96
>
> It has come to our attention that some GNU/Linux distributions are
> currently shipping with ``GCC 2.96''.
>
> We would like to point out that GCC 2.96 is not a formal GCC release nor
> will there ever be such a release. Rather, GCC 2.96 has been the code-
> name for our development branch that will eventually become GCC 3.0.
>
> Current snapshots of GCC, and any version labeled 2.96, produce object
> files that are not compatible with those produced by either GCC 2.95.2 or
> the forthcoming GCC 3.0. Therefore, programs built with these snapshots
> will not be compatible with any official GCC release. Actually, C and
> Fortran code will probably be compatible, but code in other languages,
> most notably C++ due to incompatibilities in symbol encoding (``mangling''),
> the standard library and the application binary interface (ABI), is likely
> to fail in some way. Static linking against C++ libraries may make a
> binary more portable, at the cost of increasing file size and memory use.
>
> To avoid any confusion, we have bumped the version of our current
> development branch to GCC 2.97.
>
> Please note that both GCC 2.96 and 2.97 are development versions; we
> do not recommend using them for production purposes. Binaries built
> using any version of GCC 2.96 or 2.97 will not be portable to systems
> based on one of our regular releases.
>
> If you encounter a bug in a compiler labeled 2.96, we suggest you
> contact whoever supplied the compiler as we can not support 2.96
> versions that were not issued by the GCC team.
>
> Please see http://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html if you want to use our
> latest snapshots. We suggest you use 2.95.2 if you are uncertain.
>
> The GCC Steering Committee <http://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html>
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