Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:26:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world breakage on alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812241523560.1118-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <87034.914511280@gjp.erols.com>
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On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > 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? Our binutils is pretty up to date at version 2.9.1. I don't quite have the time to tackle upgrading the compiler (and to cope with the fallout from changing compilers). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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