This is a new port for egcs, which probably stands for something

like "enhanced GNU compiler suite."  It contains updated versions of
gcc, g++, and g77 with many bugfixes and some new optimizations.
The C++ compiler in particular is vastly improved over gcc-2.7.2.1.

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+Egcs (pronounced "eggs") is an enhanced version of the GNU compiler
+suite, including gcc, g++, and g77.  Egcs is based on a recent
+snapshot of the gcc-2.8 development sources; it contains nearly
+all of the new features found in gcc-2.8.  Egcs also contains many
+improvements and features not found in gcc-2.7 and even the soon to be
+released gcc-2.8 compilers.  C++ support, and in particular template
+support, is vastly improved over gcc-2.7.
+
+For more details, see <http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/>.
+
+Beware: This port installs new versions of "gcc", "g++", "c++" and
+so forth into the "${PREFIX}/bin" directory.  Mind your PATHs if you
+don't want to use this compiler by default.
+
+- John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>