On Tue, 27 May 1997, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that we have to be backwards
> compatible to older compilers when we will never compile NetBSD with anything
> but the Gnu compiler that it comes with.

This assumes that one would have to compile (and quite probably test) gcc
on a new target platform before starting a NetBSD port.  I'd consider it
inadvisable, at least.

--scott