From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 26 12:13:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00437 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:13:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00416 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23526; Tue, 26 May 1998 21:11:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199805261911.VAA23526@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Switching default compiler (was Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning) In-Reply-To: <19980526204145.65179@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 26, 98 08:41:45 pm" To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:11:48 +0200 (CEST) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Eivind Eklund who wrote: > 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. No, its the same thing.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message