Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:41:45 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Switching default compiler (was Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning) Message-ID: <19980526204145.65179@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:40:15PM -0600 References: <356a9f0a.251653824@mail.cetlink.net> <199805261659.LAA19904@dyson.iquest.net> <19980526194334.44185@follo.net> <199805261750.LAA07058@mt.sri.com> <19980526201549.35268@follo.net> <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com>
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On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:40:15PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > Eivind Eklund writes: > > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:50:53AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible. It seems to > > > > be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc. > > > > > > Can it do shlibs? > > > > I don't know - is there much special it would have to do? > > Generating PIC code is a big prerequisite, so the assembly it generates > must be capable of being relocated. I'm not 100% sure if this is a > function of the compiler, but given that GCC1 couldn't do it and GCC2 > could, I suspect it's a function of the compiler. It can do PIC for ELF on Linux. I suspect this means that we can make it do PIC for ELF on FreeBSD, too. I don't know if making it do PIC for a.out would be significantly different. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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