This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GCC compiler collection, containing C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran-77, Java, Chill and Pascal compilers, and the libstdc++ support library. The EGCS steering comittee became maintainer of the GNU gcc compiler suite in March 1999. The compilers are split into several binary packages: gcc (which has support for C, g++ (which supports C++), gobjc (which supports Objective C), g77 (supports Fortran), gcj (supports Java), chill (supports Chill) and gpc (supports standard, extended and Borland Pascal). A version of libstdc++-v2 and libg++ are also provided. Documentation is provided in the packages gcc-doc, g77-doc and gpc-doc. This package was put together by the Debian GCC maintainers , with sources obtained from: [NOTE: the current prereleases obtained from the CVS archive] ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/egcs/releases/gcc-2.95.1.tar.gz ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/egcs/infrastructure/libg++-2.8.1.3.tar.gz ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/gpc-19990813.tar.gz where yyyymmdd corresponds to the Debian package version. Changes: see changelog.Debian.gz GCC is Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. libg++ is copyright Free Software Foundation, and is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License which on Debian GNU/Linux systems can be found as `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'. gpc is copyright Free Software Foundation, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License which on Debian GNU/Linux systems can be found as `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.