Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:15:03 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <199903011715.JAA48969@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990228152909.E2170@relay.nuxi.com> References: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9902281751060.339-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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In article <19990228152909.E2170@relay.nuxi.com>,
David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> wrote:
> > I keep on hearing about how we're losing because we don't have the 3
> > month old latest feature
>
> With EGCS the issue isn't having the latest 3 mo. feature, but we have a
> totally BROKEN C++ compiler.
Yes. We desperately need to upgrade our compiler, and egcs looks
like it's definitely the way to go.
> What I have won't build kernels yet. I could hack our system Makefiles
> to use different compile options, but I don't like that approach. So
> I'm working on adding our compiler flags and such.
Hang on. Others have reported success building kernels with egcs.
But even if there are problems, don't jump to the conclusion that
they are caused by compiler bugs. Linux also had problems building
working kernels at first, but the problems turned out to be caused by
incorrect clobber specs in "asm" statements. Such errors have also
been found in the FreeBSD kernel. Some of them have been fixed, but
maybe not all of them. In any case, the problems should be fixed at
their source, not kludged around in the compiler.
John
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