From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 12 16:23:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42DE14E2F for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA25116; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:23:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA06773; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:23:12 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908122323.RAA06773@harmony.village.org> To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Compiled a kernel with egcs Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:05:48 CDT." <19990812180548.A27359@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> References: <19990812180548.A27359@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> <19990812164245.A26812@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> <199908122227.QAA06512@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:23:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <19990812180548.A27359@nonpc.cs.rice.edu> Alan Cox writes: : Yes, I would be interested. As far as we know, the combination : of -STABLE's atomic.h and gcc-2.7.2.x generates safe code, but there's no : point in relying on chance (i.e., the specifics of an old gcc's : code generator) if we can avoid it. Agreed. Since we've vetted the old gcc code generators, the patches I have use the old way for them and the new way for 2.8 and newer. Mostly because I have never understood the constraints in asm statements... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message