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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed
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Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

by Bill Ball, David Pitts
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
1152 pages
26h 41m
English
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New Features of the GNU egcs Compiler System

The egcs (pronounced "eggs") program suite originally was an experimental version of the gcc compiler whose development was first hosted by Cygnus Support (which is now part of Red Hat). Starting with Red Hat 5.1 for Intel, egcs was made available for installation as part of your Red Hat Linux system.

When first being developed, Cygnus described egcs as an experimental step in the development of gcc. Since its first release in late summer 1997, egcs has incorporated many of the latest developments and features from parallel development of gcc with many new developments of its own, such as a built-in Fortran 77, Java, and Objective C front ends. Some people have suggested that the name be changed from ...

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