From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 18:15:11 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 18:15:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (HURLAME.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5C037B402 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:15:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from magus@localhost) by hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBC2F5a44526; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:15:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from magus) Sender: magus@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Powell Subject: Re: Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems References: <20001211103638.A21163@peitho.fxp.org> <20001211111434.A98131@dragon.nuxi.com> From: Nat Lanza Date: 11 Dec 2000 21:15:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:14:35 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" writes: > Compiling a kernel is *very* demanding on a C compiler. Linux still uses > 2.7.2.3 for their kernel compiler (someone correct me if this is not > still the case). I think they're currently recommending egcs 2.91.. There's some angsting about whether or not they should try to support 2.7.2.3 anymore. --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message