What is the relationship between GCC and EGCS?
In 1990/1991 gcc version 1 had reached a point of stability. For the targets it could support, it worked well. It had limitations inherent in its design that would be difficult to resolve, so a major effort was made to resolve those limitations and gcc version 2 was the result. When we had gcc2 in a useful state, development efforts on gcc1 stopped and we all concentrated on making gcc2 better than gcc1 could ever be. This is the kind of step forward we wanted to make with the EGCS project when it was formed in 1997. In April 1999 the Free Software Foundation officially halted development on the gcc2 compiler and appointed the EGCS project as the official GCC maintainers. The net result was a single project which carries forward GCC development under the ultimate control of the GCC Steering Committee.
