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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:10:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com, (Jordan K. Hubbard) <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: gcc
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990301141037.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903012157.QAA24740@y.dyson.net>

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John S. Dyson wrote:
> 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 :-).

Keep in mind that a whole bunch of stuff connected with kernel
initialization has been changed lately.  It may be simply that you're
dealing with an older vintage kernel.

John


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