From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 9 17:45:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22491 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:45:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22486 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au (spectrum [129.127.36.1]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id MAA11051; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:15:21 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/26Jun95-0330PM) id AA09781; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:15:19 +1030 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:15:17 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Brian Feldman Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Phillip Salzman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newer gcc? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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