From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 1 20:44:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83DF37B71D for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:44:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp152.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.152]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f224iv154628; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:44:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200103020209.SAA49235@akira.lanfear.com> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 20:44:05 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Marc W Subject: RE: Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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