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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:18:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Cc:        dyson@iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: gcc
Message-ID:  <199903012218.RAA24825@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990301141037.jdp@polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Mar 1, 99 02:10:37 pm"

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John Polstra said:
> 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.
> 
Ahhaaa...  That must be it -- I have a parallel track VM system project
going.

-- 
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.


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