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SubjectRe: Possible GCC contamination of Linux
Nix (nix-kernel@esperi.demon.co.uk) writes:

>Depends what you mean by `based'. egcs was forked from gcc a *long* time
>before that. From gcc/ChangeLog.0:


>Sun Aug 10 12:00:20 1997 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)


>* egcs project officially starts.


>gcc/FSFChangeLog indicates that changes to gcc between that date and Wed
>Jan 7 17:09:28 1998 have been merged into what is now gcc-2.95.


>The changes that have been made to gcc-2.8 since then have not been
>merged in their entirety. *That* is what's still being done (and Richard
>Kenner's a damned good person to do it; after all, he did a lot of them.
>(Plus, many of those changes to gcc-2.8.x were merges from egcs anyway.)

I don't believe you are correct, egcs continually took patches
from gcc2 (the old gcc) and merged those into egcs on a regular basis.
The last of those was merged a while ago, May 15 of this year:

http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/gcc/1999-05/msg00424.html



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