From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 19:28:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402D837B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31F043E75 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5004C66B5E; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:28:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Deepankar Das Cc: Kenneth Culver , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD 4.6 with GCC 3.2 Message-ID: <20021016022854.GB91641@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3C23AF6E.90202@ns.aus.com> <20011221164429.U48837@elvis.mu.org> <3DAC84D3.5010103@panasas.com> <200210151734.39677.culverk@yumyumyum.org> <3DAC8CDF.7060809@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DAC8CDF.7060809@panasas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:47:11PM -0700, Deepankar Das wrote: > We tried a few experiments with GCC 3.2 and parts of our source > code and found performance improvements. We want to see if there > are any similar improvements to the FreeBSD OS if we use GCC 3.2. > I understand that it is not a simple task to just swap compilers > to build the kernel. Would be very interested to know what others > have experienced. If you're willing to do the work yourself, FreeBSD 5.0-current uses gcc 3.x, so you could look at what changed were made to support it when it was first imported. Kris --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9rM7lWry0BWjoQKURAi2ZAKCghEvzq+9EJDlxJ/B6zXilS+OsNACeMwXD BqPjK005295vGGcrvbR27fk= =8+Xa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message