From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 10:11:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18229 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:11:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18221 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:11:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20783; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:11:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd020594; Fri May 29 10:11:18 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA27106; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:11:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805291711.KAA27106@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: TenDRA compiler To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:11:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: eivind@yes.no, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at May 26, 98 12:40:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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