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From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Gymer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: gcc 1.40
Keywords: gcc, mint
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.081500.851@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 08:15:00 GMT
Reply-To: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk
Organization: Nottingham University
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After all the recent discussion about the forthcoming release of gcc 1.40
on the ST, I'd like to make an appeal to those who are actually doing the
work: please, please, please make sure that it does NOT mangle filenames
like versions up to 1.39 did. My biggest gripe with gcc is that it doesn't
work happily on a Minix partition under MiNT; I know that there are other
people who also use this type of setup who I'm sure would appreciate a
'clean' version. Perhaps it would be enough to use Eric Smith's MiNT
library; I'm not familiar with the changes made to port the compiler to the ST.

I am immensly grateful to those who have ported gcc; it's a superb compiler
and I don't know how I'd get by without it. :-)
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