SuSE Linux 8.2 shipped with a prerelease version of GCC 3.3. Now that GCC 3.3 has been officially released (see the official announcement), we now also provide packages for SuSE Linux 8.2.
Documenting the changes between our 3.3 prerelease and the final 3.3 release proved to be too time consuming. Refer to the official list of changes between GCC 3.2 and 3.3. Most of these changes are already present in our package of the prerelease version.
The packages for 8.2-i386 are available on ftp.suse.com or its mirrors in the directory /pub/projects/gcc/8.2. For ftp.suse.com, the URLs are:C++ code compiled with prerelease version of gcc 3.3 will continue to work without problems, but C++ code compiled with this release version of gcc 3.3 might not run on a normal 8.2 system. This is due to a new function in libgcc_s and some new member functions in libstdc++ that might get used in the compiled code. As both libgcc_s and libstdc++ are downwards compatible, it suffices to update the packages libgcc and libstdc++ to the new versions.