From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jan 24 15:30:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8E937B402; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:30:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020124233042.WCKC3578.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org>; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:30:42 +0000 Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0ONUfs24490; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62053A9A; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Idar Tollefsen , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using GCC 3 for ports? In-Reply-To: <20020124050322.A97610@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:30:41 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020124233041.A62053A9A@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "David O'Brien" wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:52:22PM +0100, Idar Tollefsen wrote: > > > > I might hold off until I see 3.1 appear in the port collection then. > > It is -- see the gcc-devel port. I guess I should get that renamed to > gcc31 so it is clear to people... I spoke with Richard Henderson yesterday at lunch and he strongly encouraged us to try out a top-of-tree gcc-3.1 and top-of-tree binutils. Apparently they have implemented support between gcc-3.1 and binutils for more efficient data layout and relocation types that can make a big difference at runtime. He specifically asked because they ran into a few corner cases that broke on the linux kernel and they'd like us to give it a whirl as well so that we can try and shake out any remaining problems before it hits release. We may need to add a few more (simple) relocation types to the alpha elf kld relocator if we dont implement them all yet. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message