From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 8 20:24:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03551 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com ([208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03546 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-97.camalott.com [208.229.74.97]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29927; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:24:11 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18894; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:22:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:22:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808090322.WAA18894@detlev.UUCP> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu CC: garbanzo@hooked.net, tlambert@primenet.com, faber@ISI.EDU, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Fri, 7 Aug 1998 23:43:58 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: C and static initialization with unions From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. What are the current stumbling blocks? I'm interested in resyncing the gcc's. Somebody else recently expressed such an interest, but I haven't heard anything; is something being done? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message