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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!mahendo!thyme!kaleb From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD: Anyone using gcc-2.x on 0.1? Message-ID: <1992Jul29.155631.21213@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 29 Jul 92 15:56:31 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA Lines: 24 While working my way around the system, I discovered that the version of gcc shipped in 0.1 is 1.39, at least as reported by 'gcc -v'. I'm highly interested in moving to the latest version of gcc-2.x, (currently 2.2.2) because: a) I'd like to take advantage of it's ability to emit 486 specific code (instruction scheduling, primarily) b) Its ability to emit PIC (Position Independent Code) seems to be a pre-requisite for shared libraries. Has anyone else "bootstrapped" up to 2.2.2 yet? Has anyone who has, rebuilt the kernel with it yet? Does anyone have any reasons why this might not be a good idea? I'll be trying it anyway -- I've got nothing to loose, the worst thing that could happen is I'd have to reload a few disks :-) -- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov Not authorized, in any way, shape, or form, to speak for anyone.