From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 26 11:42:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24848 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 11:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24773 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 11:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA12937; Tue, 26 May 1998 18:41:46 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA16680; Tue, 26 May 1998 20:41:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980526204145.65179@follo.net> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:41:45 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Nate Williams Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Switching default compiler (was Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning) References: <356a9f0a.251653824@mail.cetlink.net> <199805261659.LAA19904@dyson.iquest.net> <19980526194334.44185@follo.net> <199805261750.LAA07058@mt.sri.com> <19980526201549.35268@follo.net> <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:40:15PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:40:15PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > Eivind Eklund writes: > > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:50:53AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible. It seems to > > > > be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc. > > > > > > Can it do shlibs? > > > > I don't know - is there much special it would have to do? > > Generating PIC code is a big prerequisite, so the assembly it generates > must be capable of being relocated. I'm not 100% sure if this is a > function of the compiler, but given that GCC1 couldn't do it and GCC2 > could, I suspect it's a function of the compiler. It can do PIC for ELF on Linux. I suspect this means that we can make it do PIC for ELF on FreeBSD, too. I don't know if making it do PIC for a.out would be significantly different. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message