Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 20:44:05 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Message-ID: <XFMail.010301204405.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200103020209.SAA49235@akira.lanfear.com>
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On 02-Mar-01 Marc W wrote: > Subject: Re:Compiling FreeBSD kernel with Sun's cc > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 > > > i may be wrong on this, but i believe that the reason that freebsd > has its 'own' version of gcc is to support some things in the kernel. > > thus, in addition to being mildly psychotic (;-)), it seems > unlikely that this would work ... Actually, the only customizations I'm aware of are -fformat-extensions which teaches gcc about the extended printf syntax in the kernel so it can give more intelligent printf argument warnings. It's not needed and is only there to shut up annoying warnings and get a little extra sanity checking from the compiler. > marc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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