From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 1 14:16:51 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 D3BF6154D8 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:16:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 2740 invoked from network); 1 Mar 1999 22:15:21 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 1 Mar 1999 22:15:21 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA24795; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:15:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903012215.RAA24795@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: gcc In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Mar 1, 99 03:58:29 pm" To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:15:19 -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 Chuck Robey said: > 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? > Okay, but JKH isn't having troubles... Hmmm... I do work with the latest CVS checkout on egcs, so there could be a minor difference there. I might play with it tonight, and I do have a generally working copy of egcs-current right now... If it isn't tonight, will be tomorrow. -- 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