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From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How suitable is gcc-2.2.2 for 386bsd?
Message-ID: <martin.720100445@hilly>
Date: 26 Oct 92 11:54:05 GMT
References: <colin.719809711@marsh> <1992Oct23.065308.15617@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Oct23.222805.24970@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Organization: MicroMuse Limited, London, England.
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torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:

>But there *IS* at least a couple of reasons for trouble with gcc-2.2.2
>under 386bsd:
> - math support.  gcc-2.2.2 generates many new 387-instructions relative
....
> - gcc-2.x generates the 386 string instructions, and doesn't put a 'cld'
....

and don't forget not being able to rebuild the machdep.c kernel file. All
the others go OK, but when I last hacked around (a month or two ago) this
was very much the case. If anyone has a workaround yet, let me know :-)
-- 
Peter Galbavy
Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
Phone: +44 71 352 7774		E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk