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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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