GCC 2.95 branch

We have made a branch in the source tree for GCC 2.95. Depending on your situation you have three choices for handling your CVS tree.

  1. Do nothing. Your existing CVS tree will continue to track the mainline gcc sources.
  2. Track just the GCC 2.95 release. You can convert your existing CVS tree to track the GCC 2.95 release with the command:
    cvs update -rgcc-2_95-branch
  3. Track both the GCC 2.95 release and the development sources. You will need to check out the GCC 2.95 release in a separate directory using the command:
    cvs co -rgcc-2_95-branch egcs

Considering that the primary focus of the developers is on the GCC 2.95 release, option #2 or #3 is recommended.

FTP snapshots will track the GCC 2.95 release only. After GCC 2.95 is released, snapshots will return to tracking the mainline sources.


All patches for the GCC 2.95 release branch must be approved by the release coordinator (Jeff Law).

We are only accepting bugfix patches for the GCC 2.95 release.

You can still submit patches for the mainline GCC sources. However, responses to such patches may be delayed due to the focus on the GCC 2.95 release.