From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 17:28:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A11637B408 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15cFfe-00037h-00; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:26:58 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "'clemensF'" , "'Kris Kennaway'" Cc: Subject: RE: CPUTYPE and ports Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:26:58 +1200 Message-ID: <00dc01c130ea$7b32eca0$0a01a8c0@den2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20010830022013.G19000@spotteswoode.yi.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: on my machine `gcc -v' outputs `gcc version 2.95.3 [FreeBSD] 20010315 :: (release)'. i'd like to read a rundown about this compiler, :: about how well :: it's doing on different platforms, what the differences :: between it and egc :: are, if i can compile fortran with it, how this would be :: done, that kind of :: thing. :: :: i've never found a document of this type, a few sentences :: would suffice, :: because i am everything _but_ a compiler bauer. maybe the :: right url would :: do. Well... you could look at http://www.goof.com/pcg/ and http://www.redhat.com/products/support/gnupro/gnupro_gcc.html Or trawl the developer.intel.com site for info on optimisations for specific processor families. www.emulators.com has some amusing rants too, and there are many sites dedicated to uncovering x86 CPU "secrets". Be aware that it's Deep Geek though. Assembly language ahead. ;-) Cheers, -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message