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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 1998 09:54:40 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make world breakage on alpha 
Message-ID:  <87034.914511280@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:16:14 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812241312030.1118-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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Doug Rabson wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.4.01.9812241312030.1118-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>:
> Oh.  It seems that the stock gcc-2.7.2.1 doesn't understand the
> -mtrap-precision and -mfp-trap-mode arguments.  The gcc patches from
> http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr fix this.  Unfortunately I use these patches
> all the time so I didn't notice that the unpatched compiler doesn't
> support software completion properly.  I'll back out the Makefile change
> in msun until we upgrade to a decent compiler.

I seem to remember noises being made a while back that after 3.0 got cut we'd 
upgrade binutils and gcc ... I think the time to do that is before the 3.0.1 
branch is taken (IMHO), so is there anyone working on this?

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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