[Wylug-announce] gcc-3.0 released

[Mark P. Conmy]

Apologies to those for whom this holds no interest, but GNU have
just made the first major release of gcc (the GNU Compiler Collection
nee GNU C Compiler) for 9 years.

Some of the new features:

	* new cpp implementation
	* a new (stable) ABI for C++ (die gcc-2.96, die)
	* new inliner for C++
	* (non-GUI) Java now supported (gcj)
	* more C99 support
	* better Fortran 77 support
	* lots of optimisation improvements

As the various sites are likely to be clogged up, anyone (particularly
those in academia) might consider using:

	ftp://ftp.comp.leeds.ac.uk/wylug/packages/gcc-3.0.tar.gz

Mark