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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:58:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903011557270.339-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199903012046.PAA24587@y.dyson.net>

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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, John S. Dyson wrote:

> I can generally build a kernel with EGCS, if I change how the .text and
> .data are laid out for initialized data.  It seems that the initialization
> code makes assumptions about the order or layout of the initialization
> data.  Once the stuff is made to act more like the version of GCC that
> FreeBSD uses, the kernel will most often build and work.

I'd like to experiment ... Next time you go to the trouble of making a
kernel with egcs, could you make a few notes on those changes, and post
them?

Thanks.

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