[rescue] GCC 3.0 Solaris 8

[Dave McGuire]

On April 4, Scott Newell wrote:
> >  I don't really know, but I can't imagine them making it worse for a
> >new release...though I suppose it's possible.
> 
> Did it get worse when they merged gcc and egcs?

  Dunno.  I haven't looked into this in-depth; all I know is that
binaries produced by Forte-C are smaller and faster.  Upon
investigation, I found comments from many people regarding the
crapulent quality of the SPARC/UltraSPARC code generation in gcc.

        -Dave

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