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Date:      Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:15:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        dyson@iquest.net, jdp@polstra.com, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc
Message-ID:  <199903012215.RAA24795@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903011557270.339-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Mar 1, 99 03:58:29 pm"

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Chuck Robey said:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, John S. Dyson wrote:
> 
> > I can generally build a kernel with EGCS, if I change how the .text and
> > .data are laid out for initialized data.  It seems that the initialization
> > code makes assumptions about the order or layout of the initialization
> > data.  Once the stuff is made to act more like the version of GCC that
> > FreeBSD uses, the kernel will most often build and work.
> 
> I'd like to experiment ... Next time you go to the trouble of making a
> kernel with egcs, could you make a few notes on those changes, and post
> them?
> 
Okay, but JKH isn't having troubles...  Hmmm...  I do work with the
latest CVS checkout on egcs, so there could be a minor difference
there.  I might play with it tonight, and I do have a generally working
copy of egcs-current right now...  If it isn't tonight, will be tomorrow.


-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.


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