From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 24 07:26:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12107 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 07:26:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12102; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 07:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11791; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:26:01 GMT Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 15:26:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Gary Palmer cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world breakage on alpha In-Reply-To: <87034.914511280@gjp.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote in message ID > : > > 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