On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

: No exact idea.
: 
: The NetBSD project decided to go with the egcs distribution, and you'll find
: egcs 1.1.1 (or is it 1.1.2 already) in NetBSD-1.4.

It's egcs 1.1.1 with some minor but important fixes from 1.1.2.  We aren't
going to bring in `full egcs 1.1.2' as a last-minute for 1.4 because 1.1.1
is more well tested.  NetBSD 1.4.1 and/or 1.5 are likely to have a newer
egcs.

: I understand this is roughly equivalent to gcc-2.8.1, but with some additional
: optimizing features, and better maintained.

In a nutshell.

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