From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 1 13:57:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C354153B6 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 12841 invoked from network); 1 Mar 1999 21:57:23 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 1 Mar 1999 21:57:23 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA24740; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:57:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903012157.QAA24740@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: gcc In-Reply-To: <34879.920323716@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 1, 99 01:28:36 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:57:20 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, jdp@polstra.com, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > 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. > > It really does appear to be a simple matter of first making egcs "take over" > the system compiler: > Okay, I guess I have been missing something :-). -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message