From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 9 17:03:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12866 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:03:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12861 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02265; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:07:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809100007.RAA02265@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Feldman cc: "David O'Brien" , Doug Rabson , John Birrell , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler problems with gcc-2.7.2.1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Sep 1998 19:45:17 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:07:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yes, well I happen to try EGCS too, 1.1b most lately. It _DOES_ seem to > have some bad optimization bugs, and last time I tried EGCS( with PGCC) to > compile a kernel, it choked on good code 2.7.2.1 worked with. However the > instabilities I will need to test, which won't happen till I get a gdb > that handles the new ELF coredumps. The "new ELF coredumps" are actually the old a.out coredumps. Work is underway right now to implement proper ELF coredumps. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message