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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 23:43:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, faber@ISI.EDU, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C and static initialization with unions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808072341430.341-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808072136570.14076-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>

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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Alex wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > So when will someone try replacing gcc with TenDRA, yadda yadda, and
> > > getting a make world built with tcc and a make world to build tcc?
> > 
> > I tried this once.  The .mk file unfortunately replace include paths,
> > making no distinction between build environments and targets, which
> > is truly unfortunate.  It means I can't even build FreeBSD with the
> > next revision of GCC (a port), since it gets the wrong libgcc.a...
> 
> I thought that a make world bootsrapped gcc, so that if you truely wanted
> to build world with TenDRA, you'd have to remove the gcc, and drop in the
> tcc source?  Either way, I'd love to see the default compiler for FreeBSD
> support exceptions and STL v3.11..
> 
> Ah well, here's to hopin that egcs supports a.out C++ shared libs soon.

Well, it's not the compiler, it's the linker here that's important, and
don't hold your breath on that, GNU hasn't supported our a.out for a
_very_ long time ... I don't think, without FreeBSD modifications, that
they ever did.

Sooner, we'll probably go to ELF, making it a moot point.

> 
> - alex
> 
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