From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 1 13: 0:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D861015403 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:00:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA52675; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:58:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:58:29 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: John Polstra , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc In-Reply-To: <199903012046.PAA24587@y.dyson.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message