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From: mi@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GCC Proposal
Date: 18 Jun 1996 01:31:35 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable James Raynard
wrote on 14 Jun (in article <4prob4$53n@jraynard.demon.co.uk>):
=In the mean time, you're perfectly free to FTP down the latest and
=greatest version of gcc, hack it, install it as 'gcc' and use it for
=whatever non system-related programming tasks you like. Just so long
=as you don't install it as 'cc' and compile your kernel with it! 8-)
There is not really much to hack -- few defines, that's it. I had
a pentiumized version working before it appeared in ports collection.
On the few Pentiums I administer (my home machine is 486) the
/kernel and entire X-windows stuff is compiled with the pentiumized
gcc. It is rather simple... (Be carefull with -mpentium option,
however. Higher the -O2 optimizations produce incorrect code
still :( ).
-mi
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