Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:15:17 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, Phillip Salzman <psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newer gcc? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811101212170.9655-100000@spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811092000470.26160-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > The "features/optimization" part is very debatable. For C code, I tend to > get much inferior assembly output using egcs, or even gcc 2.8.1, rather > than 2.7.2.1.x, even if of course egcs _is_ better for C++, as I've seen. > Have you actually successfully compiled an entire world with egcs? Let me > know when you do (kernel too). An egcs ELF kernel compiled and booted fine for me after disabling -Wformat-extensions in kern.mk (gave me a lot of warnings about extra arguments to format() or something, which I didnt bother to understand -- but it worked). Perhaps I'll run with such a kernel for a while to see if I notice anything unstable about it. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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