Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:11:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: eivind@yes.no, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TenDRA compiler Message-ID: <199805291711.KAA27106@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at May 26, 98 12:40:15 pm
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> > > > Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible. It seems to > > > > be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc. > > > > > > Can it do shlibs? > > > > I don't know - is there much special it would have to do? > > Generating PIC code is a big prerequisite, so the assembly it generates > must be capable of being relocated. I'm not 100% sure if this is a > function of the compiler, but given that GCC1 couldn't do it and GCC2 > could, I suspect it's a function of the compiler. Someone should talk to Jeffrey Hsu, since he's the guy who did the original GCC PIC modifications (back when I was first working on LKM's and BSD style shared libraries in early 1994(?)). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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