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Date:      28 May 1998 00:29:28 -0000
From:      "Brian Feldman" <brianfeldman@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Replacing gcc as the system compiler (was Re: Fix
Message-ID:  <19980528002928.19833.qmail@m2.findmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980527225647.36082@follo.net>

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Yep, being able to use NULL casted to void * is part of the C standard.

Brian Feldman
> 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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