From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 14:47:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8796437B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PIKES.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CCE43EEF for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddas@panasas.com) Received: from panasas.com ([172.17.132.153]) by PIKES.panasas.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RYSHHDWY; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:47:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3DAC8CDF.7060809@panasas.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:47:11 -0700 From: Deepankar Das User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Culver Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD 4.6 with GCC 3.2 References: <3C23AF6E.90202@ns.aus.com> <20011221164429.U48837@elvis.mu.org> <3DAC84D3.5010103@panasas.com> <200210151734.39677.culverk@yumyumyum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We tried a few experiments with GCC 3.2 and parts of our source code and found performance improvements. We want to see if there are any similar improvements to the FreeBSD OS if we use GCC 3.2. I understand that it is not a simple task to just swap compilers to build the kernel. Would be very interested to know what others have experienced. Thanks, Deepankar Kenneth Culver wrote: > On Tuesday 15 October 2002 05:12 pm, Deepankar Das wrote: > >>All, >> >>Has anyone tried building FreeBSD 4.6 with GCC 3.2? I am seeing >>pre-processor problems during the "make depend" stage. Anything >>that I need to know to make GCC 3.2 build FreeBSD 4.6? >> >>Thanks, >>Deepankar >> > > I'm just curious, but why are you doing this. This isn't a supported way of > doing things in FreeBSD 4.6, and I doubt that anyone's going to be able to > tell you how to do it because of that. > > Ken > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deepankar Das Panasas Inc. Pioneering the World's Most Scalable and Agile Storage Network www.panasas.com ddas@panasas.com 510-608-4366 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message