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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!uni-muenster.de!news 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 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <FRAUNE.95Jun16162426@dwalin.uni-muenster.de> References: <3ra0hs$rja@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dwalin.uni-muenster.de In-reply-to: atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU's message of 9 Jun 1995 17:31:40 GMT In article <3ra0hs$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