[openbeos] Re: a new release of gcc-2.95.3 is available

Good news :)

> you can find the current release here:
> 
>       http://dl.hirschkaefer.de/gcc/gcc-2.95.3-beos-041025.zip
> 
> These are the main changes as compared to the last release:
> 
> - the resulting executables no longer crash the *broken* dynamic 
> loader on
>   BONE/Dano/Zeta.
Well, the elf loader in BeOs is quite weak anyway... 
What exactly is broken in there ?

> 
> - GLTeapot (and other software using BDirectWindow) is now working 
> properly.
I'm not sure I see in what way that's related to gcc...

> 
> - readline is now part of the distribution, since Be distributed it 
> as 
>   part of their gcc-releases, too (the bundled version is readline-
> 5.0).
Btw, I noted with bash that readline has some issues when it comes 
to multibyte char handling (UTF8).
Say you type:
ls Préfé
and hit backspace, of course it only deletes the last byte of 
the last char which is a 2-bytes one. Also, the display is 
shifted by one char each time.
Do you know if there is a fix for that in recent readline ?
It's not really a bug but it's annoying.

François.

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