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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:13:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Kott <dakott@alpha.delta.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PGCC and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306111202.26185B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305214502.13444B-200000@kott.my.domain>

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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, David Kott wrote:

> > > Has anyone installed PGCC on FreeBSD and performed a "make world"?  I
> > > wonder if the pentium optimizations break anyting.
> > 
> > pgcc still has bugs; you can't build a kernel with it.
> 
> Actually Doug, I do compile my -stable kernel with pgcc version 2.7.2p.  I
> do have to make minor modifications to my makefile because, as you say,
> pgcc is a bit buggy, and will not compile a few of the kernel programs. 

Reportedly, pgcc doesn't generate correct code and thus builds a faulty
kernel.  Perhaps they fixed that. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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