On Thursday, 31 December 1998,
     TOBIAS ERNST wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about EMX 0.9d

 TE> * Copied from: OS2PROG
 TE> Hallo IVAN!

 IT>>   I wonder, is gcc going to be abandoned and superceded with the new
 IT>>   egcs?

 TE> Probably not.

 IT>> What's the deal with those two paralel environments?

 TE> As far as I have understood, the deal is the following:

 TE> egcs is the *E*xperimental *G*NU *C*ompiler (err, what the heck is
 TE> the S for? ), with a stress on "experimental".
This means that

  egcs is supposed to stand for Experimental GNU Compiler System
  (atleast that's what the docs said)

 TE> there are new versions of egcs every few weeks, that they include
 TE> new features (especially in the C++ area) as soon as possible,

  [...]

 TE> If any of the two is killed of, I rather expect it to be egcs,
 TE> because it will no longer be necessary as soon as the C++ standard
 TE> is no longer evovling and the compiler makers have learned how to
 TE> implement C++ properly.

  OK, that cleared up a LOT. Thanks!

                                                            - Ivan -

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