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I don't think gcc 9 was available in 2003.

• nurettin 6y ago
  We had gcc3, but some people were still stuck with redhat's patched 2.96 (which was officially 2.95 + some security patches)
  • hyperman1 6y ago
    It was worse than that. They took whatever unreleased code was in the gnu repository on a random day, and started patching that. gcc 2.96 was known for miscompiling all sorts of stuff. GNU caught a lot of flack for a compiler they didn't even release. AFAK Red Hat did this as they wanted to support ia64, but no (released) gcc version had a backend for it. 2 sides of this story: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html https://linux.web.cern.ch/docs/other/gcc296/ https://linux.web.cern.ch/docs/other/gcc296/