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Date:      Sun, 7 Jul 1996 17:48:07 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gcc lies? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960707173906.6165A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199607070830.BAA00607@rah.star-gate.com>

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It's was probably done more for compilability and stability.

I just got word that they've been using gcc 2 for a couple of months now.

-mike

On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Amancio Hasty wrote:

> Dumb question , is gcc-1.42 a lot faster than gcc-2.x?
> 
> 	Tnks,
> 	Amancio
> 
> >From The Desk Of Greg Lehey :
> > Michael Hancock writes:
> > >
> > > This is probably why BSDI uses gcc 1.x for the kernel and gives their
> > > screaming customers 2.7.2.
> > 
> > Hey, you're right, even BSD/OS 2.1 still uses gcc 1.42.  You'd think
> > they would have got their act together by now.  But I remember the
> > background: there was something to do with kernel structures being
> > aligned differently under gcc 2.x.  You'd think they would have it
> > fixed by now, though.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> 
> 

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