From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 7 13:18:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12333 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 13:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12328 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 13:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id QAA24582; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 16:18:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 16:18:11 -0400 Message-Id: <199607072018.QAA24582@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: grog@lemis.de CC: michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607070742.JAA15222@allegro.lemis.de> (grog@lemis.de) Subject: Re: gcc lies? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hey, you're right, even BSD/OS 2.1 still uses gcc 1.42. You'd > think they would have got their act together by now. But I > remember the background: there was something to do with kernel > structures being aligned differently under gcc 2.x. You'd think > they would have it fixed by now, though. gcc 2.7.x allows you to specify alignment, and has superior optimizations to gcc 1.42. Maybe nobody at BSDI has looked that closely at the idea? -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped