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Date:      Wed, 27 May 1998 22:56:47 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Replacing gcc as the system compiler (was Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning)
Message-ID:  <19980527225647.36082@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805272004.WAA13789@ceia.nordier.com>; from Robert Nordier on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:04:11PM %2B0200
References:  <19980527182337.47243@follo.net> <199805272004.WAA13789@ceia.nordier.com>

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On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:04:11PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote:
> You may need -ltdf during linking.

What does this contain?

Have you looked closely at XANDF?  I'm seeing two real hurdles (beyond
inertia) in using this as our main compiler: The use of asm() for some
macros in the kernel, and the use of linker sets.  What do you think
our chance of working around these are?

> There is currently an unresolved bug in i386 long long support: avoid
> casting to long long.

There is also what looks like a bug in handling of NULL - it doesn't
allow the use of ((void *)0) as NULL for function pointers.

I may remember the C standard incorrectly (I haven't looked it up),
but I think it is required to.

Eivind.

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