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. 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