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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Info regarding kernal compiles Date: 4 Feb 1994 01:24:34 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2is84i$q5t@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CKnMDu.7sy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CKnMDu.7sy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, Shawn Slavin <sdslavin@pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu> wrote: > >Hi there! I posted a while back about trouble with panic trap messages on soft >reboots of my FreeBSD-1.0 system (i486/50 DX2). I had another problem with my >keyboard, and both seemed to be fixed by switching to the SYSCONS >configuration, rather than GENERICAH. > >Well, I tried to compile it again the other day, and back came the panic trap >messages on soft reboots. I then realized that I had used the -m486 -O2 >options with gcc, and not the default -O. So, I recompiled it with the -m486 >-O2, and it works great. Sounds like a bug in gcc2.4.5 (Naw, gcc doesn't have bugs, does it. :-) >So, I don't see why the -O2 option has anything to do with this. BUT, is there >something in the kernal code that will be significantly affected by the -m486 >option? It *shouldn't* introduce bugs since it shouldn't change the way the code runs. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.