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- From: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] A caution on using new man & gcc 2.3.1 notes.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.232902.5582@raid.dell.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:29:02 GMT
- References: <JKH.92Nov9195806@esel.lotus.com>
- Reply-To: james@raid.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Dell Computer Co
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- In <JKH.92Nov9195806@esel.lotus.com>, jkh@esel.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard) wrote:
-
- > On a positive note, I compiled all of XFree86 1.1 with gcc 2.3.1 and
- > it works great (with -O2 -m486). 2.3.1 obviously isn't as buggy
- > as some people are claiming.
-
- gcc 2.3.1 is quite reliable.
-
- > Of course, when I tried to compile libc with it, it coredumped on
- > ldexp.c, so it's not *that* robust either!
-
- I would bet that there is an asm statement in ldexp.c that tries to
- use 387 registers. gcc 2.3.1 uses a different syntax for such
- expressions than gcc 1.39, and it's unlikely that any asm statement
- involving 387 regs will work without being rewritten.
-
- That being said, an error message would have been more graceful than a
- core dump. I don't have access to 386bsd right now: please send a bug
- report.
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