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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!boulder.parcplace.com!imp From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: gcc 2.6.0 on FreeBSD 1.1.5[.1] Message-ID: <Ct5Ao7.4xp@boulder.parcplace.com> Sender: news@boulder.parcplace.com Organization: ParcPlace Boulder References: <30bv7n$aet@panix3.panix.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 16:48:06 GMT Lines: 19 In article <30bv7n$aet@panix3.panix.com> wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul) writes: >Well, in case anybody's interested, I decided to give the recently >released gcc 2.6.0 a spin on FreeBSD 1.1.5, just for the sheer hell of >it. Here's what happened: It has been discussed in other forum (fori?) that gcc 2.6.0 moves around assembler instructions in inline functions too much (eg puts a seti/clri out of place) and that Linux kernels built with it have some problems due to these factors. I'd urge some amount of caution until these issues are resolved. They usually are. I think that 2.5.0 had similar problems, but 2.5.8 didn't, for example. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder "... but I can't promote you to "Prima Donna" unless you demonstrate a few more serious personality disorders"