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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:56:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Matthew Rezny" <mrezny@umr.edu>
Cc:        "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: gcc error compiling KDE2
Message-ID:  <15284.29589.489153.736235@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010928045311.2FC9237B40E@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20010928045311.2FC9237B40E@hub.freebsd.org>

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Matthew Rezny writes:
 > favicons.moc:102: Internal compiler error in `gen_reload_inhi', at
 > ../cc_tools/i

If you have a machine which has the bwx instructions (ev56 or better),
you should put CPUTYPE=ev56 in /etc/make.conf (grep BWX
/var/run/dmesg.boot to see if you have bwx instructions)

This particular gcc crash goes away with -mev56.  In general, gcc
seems to do much better when it is allowed to use the bwx
instructions. 

In fact, even if you don't have a machine that does bwx instructions,
it is safe to turn them on for files that crash gcc -- FreeBSD will
emulate bwx instructions on non-bwx hardware  This is slow, but if you
are desparate..

FWIW, kde is dog-slow on alpha.  Konqueror takes about 45 seconds from
invocation to the first appearance of a window (its the only kde app
running, so it has to start a bunch of kde goop).  To switch from the
default file-browser mode it comes up in to a web page takes roughly
20 seconds.  This is on a 600MHz UP1000 (ev67) with 450MB free after
Konqueror is launched.



Drew


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