March 15, 1999
We are pleased to announce the release of EGCS 1.1.2.
EGCS is a collaborative effort involving several groups of hackers using an open development model to accelerate development and testing of GNU compilers and runtime libraries.
EGCS 1.1.2 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.1.1 compiler to fix several serious problems in EGCS 1.1.1.
libg2c
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so the returned year is in the documented, non-Y2K-compliant range
of 0-99, instead of being returned as 100 in the year 2000.
libg2c
) to return the milliseconds value properly
in Values(8).
libg2c
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to return device-ID information properly in SArray(7).
An important goal of EGCS is to allow wide scale testing of new features and optimizations which are still under development. However, EGCS has been carefully tested and should be comparable in quality to most gcc releases.
EGCS 1.1.2 is based on the June 6, 1998 snapshot of the GCC 2.8 development sources; it contains all of the new features found in GCC 2.8.1 as well as all new development from gcc2 up to June 6, 1998.
See the new features page for a more complete list of new features found in EGCS 1.1 releases.
The EGCS 1.1.2 release includes installation instructions in both HTML and plaintext forms (see the INSTALL directory in the toplevel directory of the EGCS 1.1.2 distribution). However, we also keep the most up to date installation instructions and build/test status on our web page. We will update those pages as new information becomes available.
The EGCS project would like to thank the numerous people that have contributed new features, test results, bugfixes, etc. This amazing group of volunteers is what makes EGCS successful.
And finally, we can't in good conscience fail to mention some caveats to using EGCS 1.1.2. Download EGCS 1.1.2 from egcs.cygnus.com (USA California) -->
Download EGCS 1.1.2 from go.cygnus.com (USA California - High speed link provided by Stanford)
The EGCS 1.1.2 release is also available on many mirror sites.