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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!news.kei.com!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!newsserver.sdsc.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!news.Cerritos.edu!news.Arizona.EDU!canopus.as.arizona.edu!tom From: tom@canopus.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD still using GCC 2.4.5?! Date: 22 Sep 1995 18:15:16 GMT Organization: Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona Lines: 18 Message-ID: <43uufk$h9s@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <43shaa$o7s@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: canopus.as.arizona.edu Cc: In article <43shaa$o7s@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>, Jake Hamby <hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >..... I realized that NetBSD is still >using GCC 2.4.5... Why is this?? The more interesting question would perhaps be why not. I am tempted to go into a long tirade about the "bigger is better" logic implicit in this question, but I won't. And hopefully it is obvious that folks may not run the latest version of gcc for the same reason folks run NetBSD 1.0 rather than -current. I still run gcc 1.40 for a lot of my m68k work. Does just fine, and its a lot smaller than gcc 2.x -- Tom Trebisky Steward Observatory ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu University of Arizona (602) 621-5135 Tucson, Arizona 85721