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From: Toby Sargeant <toby@forefront.com.au>
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Subject: Re: GNU error refrence?
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 10:46:34 +1100
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Graeme Evans wrote:
> 
> >If possible, I'll make the 32-bit build of this compiler available to
> >people (hoping that the same gcc will handle it, because I don't build
> >that for the pro devkit
> 
> Cool. Gil, do you know whats better in 2.8? I had a looksie at the changelog
> and well it means nowt to me.
> 
> Graeme

[slightly off topic, sorry]

erk. well, I built gcc2.8.0 last night, for both linux and psx, and then rebuilt
a kernel with it, hoping that the snazzy new ppro optimisations would speed
things up a bit. the upshot of a night of frustration, followed by a bit of
nosing around the newsgroups is that gcc 2.8.0 generates bad code from one of
the linux kernel source files (ioport.c), which causes X to dump core.
there's a way to get around it (use a copy of ioport.c from a later kernel
revision (~ >2.1.70), but it's still a bit worrying. I think I'm going to stick
with a 2.7.x gcc for a while, for both linux and psx. Given that I don't know
exactly where the error is produced, I don't know whether it'll affect the
code generated for the playstation, and I don't want to be hunting bugs that
aren't there.

toby.