From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 9 17:26:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17129 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-5.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17057 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA01587; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:26:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Brian Feldman cc: current Subject: Re: Compiler problems with gcc-2.7.2.1 In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > 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. Since I assume you're not running an ELF kernel, and can reproduce the egcs bug, try running it under gdb as an interm solution. P.S. It's not the coredumps that have changed, this is the problem. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message