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Re: Cygwin32 19.2 update planned


Parker, Ron wrote:

> Replacing gcc with egcs would constitute a major change.  Look for it in
> B20.  Most of the "point" releases have only included changes to winsup
> and occasionally newlib.

Are you speaking officially or is that your guess?  I took Geoffrey's
msg a few days ago (4/20) to mean 19.2 *would* include egcs:

Geoffrey Noer writes (edited - see archives for full msg):

> EGCS is the Experimental GNU Compiler System -- an updated
> experimental version of gcc.  Beta 19's compiler was based on the
> FSF gcc 2.8 release.  Either can be used to compile Cygwin32...
> Future GNU-Win32 releases will include EGCS instead of gcc 2.8.

-J
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