The race to GCC 3

[Mark J. Dulcey]

Brian J. Conway wrote:
>>Really? in Debian (testing tree), since Friday the 13th.
> 
> 
> I assume he meant the primary compiler in a release version.  GCC 3.2 has 
> been in Mandrake's Cooker tree since it's release, and Mandrake 8.2 had an 
> earlier verison of GCC 3 as a secondary compiler.  I was playing around 
> with Mandrake 9.0 on a couple machines at work the other day, it's pretty 
> slick.

That is indeed what I meant; a distribution where:

1. GCC 3.x is the primary compiler.
2. The binaries that come with the distribution are built with GCC 3.x.

So far as I know, Mandrake 9.0 is the first released (not beta) distribution to meet that requirement, but it won't be alone for long.