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Date:      Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:54:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, dkelly@hiwaay.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Back to sysinstall (was Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812190950260.2182-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981219165811.8143I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Narvi wrote:
[...]
> Well, if the question behind the threads issue is real, we might be in for
> some real problems. 
> 
> Also, for working exceptions with egcs, binutuils 2.9 is needed (could be
> we already have that, I haven't checked). There has been confusion with EH
> and egcs from about day one.

redwood203:~$as --version
GNU assembler 2.9.1
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i386-unknown-freebsdelf'.
redwood203:~$as -aout --version
*unknown*: Assembler messages:
*unknown*:0: Warning: /usr/libexec/aout/as: I don't understand '-' flag.
GNU assembler version 1.92.3, FreeBSD $Revision: 1.6 $

I personally haven't been able to get exceptions to work at all unless I
use setjmp/jongjmp exceptions.  This is with egcs configured for a
freebsdelf target.  This is no problem, except this isn't threadsafe.

> Then there are some changes problems with asm.
> 
> Major template bogossities abound.

Hmm?

> Can we build a reliably working system with egcs? Has anyone actually
> tried it?

I don't know if the actual egcs releases post 1.1 do this, but the
snapshot of egcs I'm using treats const -> non const w/out a cast and vice
versa as a fatal error, which could prove quite fun.

- alex

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