On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Were you around back in the late 90s when redhat shipped a >> broken gcc? :) Even today redhat seems to have the biggest >> mind share and perhaps > That was 2.96, I think? or perhaps you refer to egcs, which was an earlier effort to poke a stick in the lagging FSF effort not to troll here, but the argument may be made that the 2.96 demoninated gcc variant was more stable (less 'broken') than its upstream at like level. Bero is long gone from Red Hat of course, but I have an archival copy of his statement here: http://www.owlriver.com/tips/gcc-296-bero/ May we have a new Subject on this drifted thread if it continues, please? -- Russ herrold