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egcs is an experimental spin-off of gcc that started when people got
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fed up waiting for gcc 2.8. As the C++ standard finally emerged,
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egcs people strove trying to implement as much of it as possible.
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Accordingly, egcs C++ compiler is more suitable for C++ development as
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gnu gcc. Its library approaches the standard, template support is almost
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complete, namespace support is coming in, it also includes a newer
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scheduler (haifa) that gives improved results on HPRisc and Alpha
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architecture.
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There is some on-going work in egcs that makes it interesting to make
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a recent snapshot available.
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Notably, the standard C++ library has been updated to a version much closer
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to the ANSI standard. The namespace support is much better than the
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release version.
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Also, there is some on-going work in improving numerical computations
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with C++.
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Finally, some flavors of the scheduler have been improved.
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For instance, there is a new sparc scheduler that is not available as
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a release yet.
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On the other hand, work upon the integration of pgcc with mainline egcs
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is not ready yet.
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See http://egcs.cygnus.com for more details.
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