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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:26:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world breakage on alpha 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812241523560.1118-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <87034.914511280@gjp.erols.com>

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On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Gary Palmer wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote in message ID
> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812241312030.1118-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>:
> > Oh.  It seems that the stock gcc-2.7.2.1 doesn't understand the
> > -mtrap-precision and -mfp-trap-mode arguments.  The gcc patches from
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr fix this.  Unfortunately I use these patches
> > all the time so I didn't notice that the unpatched compiler doesn't
> > support software completion properly.  I'll back out the Makefile change
> > in msun until we upgrade to a decent compiler.
> 
> I seem to remember noises being made a while back that after 3.0 got cut we'd 
> upgrade binutils and gcc ... I think the time to do that is before the 3.0.1 
> branch is taken (IMHO), so is there anyone working on this?

Our binutils is pretty up to date at version 2.9.1.  I don't quite have
the time to tackle upgrading the compiler (and to cope with the fallout
from changing compilers).

--
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037



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