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On Tue, 2006-06-13 21:32:05 +0000, A. Wik <aw@aw.gs> wrote:
> How come there's such an apparent eagerness about upgrading GCC,
> anyway?  Typically the only noticeable change from an older
> version is the breakage of features and noticeable increases in
> memory consumption and compilation time.

Stricter checking for standards?  Drastically improved emission of
helpful warnings?  OTOH, some newer features (thread local storage
comes to mind) will never be implemented in something like a
gcc-2.95...

MfG, JBG

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