what unix, linux c/c++ to buy

[Jerry Feldman]

SuSE 6.4 has  2.95.2:
gaf at gaf:~ > c++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)              
Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> > All this time getting 6.2 out, and they can't even get something as basic
> > as /bin/sort working?? It does make one wonder...
> 
> There's more than just that, of course.  I got the 6.2 CD's from Cheapbytes
> this week, and "upgraded" my home system that was running Mandrake 6.1.  
> They've
> omitted a lot of stuff that Mandrake has.
> 
> But, what's most disappointing is that they still are distributing the
> 2.91.66 version of g++, which has what I consider to be a serious bug in 
> the optimizer (since it broke code that I wrote!).  The 7.0 version of 
> Mandrake as the 2.95.2 version of g++, which has the optimizer bug fixed.
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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