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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and GNU gcc
Date: 23 Apr 1996 17:04:33 GMT
Organization: Applied Physics Laboratory
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Message-ID: <4lj2j1$ro9@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
References: <sjqiRAAuaUexEwKO@ruthless.demon.co.uk> <ZV4b7AAm$$exEwfe@ruthless.demon.co.uk>
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Ravi Cheema <ravi@ruthless.demon.co.uk> wrote in article <ZV4b7AAm$$exEwfe@ruthless.demon.co.uk> :
>
[deleted David's reply]
>David,
>
>Thanks for your reply. You could be right, I'm not actually running
>'gcc' but 'cc', when I type 'man cc' it displays the man page for 'gcc'
>so I assume I'm actually using 'gcc' when I run 'cc', is this correct?
Yes, gcc is the default C compiler on a FreeBSD box. So, cc actually
involves gcc.
>Certain programs within the application compile using 'cc' and run OK,
>but a particular program which is quite large compiles OK but fails with
>the error 'Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.'
Try 'file executablr_name' at the shell prompt. This will tell you the
magic of the file. For example,
kargl[222] file /usr/bin/cc
/usr/bin/cc: FreeBSD/i386 demand paged dynamically linked executable
>
>Could this be a resource problem? i.e. the system reporting a lack of
>memory in a stange way?
>
>Any help on this would be most appreciated.
>
>____________________________________________________________________________
>Ravi Cheema "We take a handful of sand from the
><ravi@ruthless.demon.co.uk> endless landscape of awareness around us
><ravi@osm.co.uk> and call that handful of sand the world."
>____________________________________________________________________________
>
Steve
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