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    SubjectRe: Post-halloween doc updates.
    >  > >Compiler issues.
    > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    > > >- The recommended compiler (for x86) is still 2.95.3.
    > >
    > > I'm not sure this is still the case, in practice. Recent times have
    > > seen people breaking 2.95.x, which did not support the C99/C++ style of
    > > mixing variable declarations and code. People would forget this, and we
    > > only find out a few days later that the 2.95.x build was broken.
    >
    > *nod*, more and more distros are now shipping gcc3 as their stock compiler,

    That may be partially motivated by the fact that latest GLIBC no
    longer compiles with GCC 2.95.x

    > so it's likely at some point things are going to change.

    Do you think that GCC > 2.95.x actually produces noticably better code
    though? I'm not convinced yet, and yet compile times can be a lot
    higher.

    By the way, it might be worth adding something to the input devices
    section suggesting that people try forcing set 3 if they have a
    keyboard which has keys that are not independently usable, and it's
    not a regression since 2.4. I have such a keyboard, and I saw a post
    recently describing similar behavior with a VMS keyboard.

    John.
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