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From: fraune@dwalin.uni-muenster.de (Joerg Fraune)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: gcc and pentinum optimziation
Date: 16 Jun 1995 14:24:25 GMT
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany
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In-reply-to: atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU's message of 9 Jun 1995 17:31:40 GMT

In article <3ra0hs$rja@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU (Alan T Krantz) writes:

> From: atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU (Alan T Krantz)
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> Date: 9 Jun 1995 17:31:40 GMT
> Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
> 
> A long time ago (I guess a year) intel had a hacked version of gcc (5.4
> I think) which produced optimzed pentinum code. Has these optimizations
> been incorporated into 6.3? If not does anyone know where a version of
> gcc with the optimizations can be found?
> 
> Thanks,
> atk
> 

 There are patches for 2.6.3 in 
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/devel.c/gcc-2.6.3-i2.6.3.diff.gz, but those are not
usable. Using a 2.6.3 with these patches under Linux led to unpredictable
problems (programs dumped core while they worked fine when compiled with
'normal' gcc). When I tried to compile it under FreeBSD (SNAP 950322) the
xgcc died with sig 11 while compilation ...
 
 Joerg