In article <9508251255.AA02580@norton.cc.umanitoba.ca>
umpaul11@cc.UManitoba.CA (Kerry James Paulson) writes:

     I think it would be a good idea to freeze current now (it's been a long
   time since the last release) and update all the GNU tools to the latest
   version.

Perhaps nobody else recalls now, but one of the things that held up
the 1.0 release was compiler bugs, which I had to deal with.
`Upgrading' the compiler immediately before a release is absolutely
insane.