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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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