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++-v3 is also provided.

Documentation is provided in the packages gcc-3.0-doc, g77-3.0-doc and
gpc-3.0-doc.

This package was put together by the Debian GCC maintainers
<debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>, with sources obtained from:

  [NOTE: the current prereleases obtained from the CVS archive]
  ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-2.95.2.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, 2000, 2001 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'.

The libgcj library is licensed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License, with this special exception:

    As a special exception, if you link this library with other files
    to produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause
    the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public
    License.  This exception does not however invalidate any other
    reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU
    General Public License.