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A now beta level update of GCC is on Netlabs FTP site
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/GCC-3.3.5-beta1.zip

GCC is a distribution of the GNU C/C++ compiler suite and associated utilities for the IBM OS/2 platform.

The ReleaseNote.os2 for this release states:

"GCC v3.3.5 / LIBC v0.6 - Beta 1:
--------------------------------

New features:

o setitimer/alarm implementation. Needs some review later the accuracy isn't extacly great.

o Added a couple of missing os2emx.h features.

o Some more 16-bit thunkers.

Bug fixes:

o Select worker called wrong tcpip function.

o Incorrect assertion during thread destruction.

o Fixed broken chdir and getdrive.

o Improved deadlock detection (fmutex have changed, thus stdio FILE is also changed).

o ...


Known Limitiations/Problems:

o Static linking not possible - will be fixed.

o Job control will only be applied to thread 1 in a process. This won't change.

o Missing some process group interfaces required for job control. They'll show up soon.

o Doesn't evaluate trailing slash in paths as directory specifier, it's currently ignored."

"If you have any questions regarding the compiler we recommend to join the UnixOS2 mailinglist:

http://unixos2.org/pages/MailingLists.html

There is also a web interface at gmane.org:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.os2.unixos2

Source: OS2VOICE

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