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From: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: pgcc port
To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:15:33 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960925173143.14060A-100000@klemm.gtn.com> from "Andreas Klemm" at Sep 25, 96 05:37:39 pm
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> 
> > I believe John Dyson has been using P5-optimized gcc for quite a
> > while....
> 
> John, what do you think about integration some or all Pentium
> related patches into our main cc 2.7.2.1 ?!
> 
The pgcc is experimental at best.  Once in a while, I can build a kernel
that works.  I really should give the pgcc guys some feedback, but my
job and FreeBSD take up ALL of my time...  I would keep our standard cc
as stable as it can be -- if someone wants to run pgcc, let them do it
at their own risk by installing the port.  Pgcc sig-11's quite often.  I have
seen a few cases of incorrect code.  Frankly, I think that it is in the
state of being a superub experiment (I kind-of like it, the pgcc people
are doing what the GCC people should have been doing), but I would not
trust the family jewels to it quite yet :-).

John