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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
- Subject: Re: 68000/i386 C Compiler V4.1 -> V4.2 Patch [Part 1/4]
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.140146.8688@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1668@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk> <1705@uitecgw.uitec.ac.jp> <1993Jan21.124103.6725@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:01:46 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1993Jan21.124103.6725@email.tuwien.ac.at> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
- >nemossan@uitec.ac.jp (Sakurao NEMOTO) writes:
- >> I am using C386 version 4.1 on the 486 (33 MHz) machine. I works
- >>fine. But new Version (4.2 - compiled by 4.1) can not compile itself.
- >>This new c386 loops forever at compiling src/optimize.c.
- >
- >I tried to compile it with gcc 2.2.2, but it wouldn't link. The linker
- >(from gcc 1.37.1) doesn't print any error messages, but it doesn't
- >produce an executable either. There must be something magic about
- >c386 4.2 :-(
-
- No - it's probably due to a bug in the linker. I had similar problems
- when I used the original 1.37 version of gcc+binutils under minix, and
- solved most of them by compiling gcc-1.40 and a newer version of
- binutils. I don't remember what the exact reason for the bug was, but
- it was annoing: 'ld' just died without doing anything (I don't think it
- even returned an error code to tell you something went wrong).
-
- Linus
-