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Date:      Sun, 7 Jul 1996 16:18:11 -0400
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To:        grog@lemis.de
Cc:        michaelh@cet.co.jp, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gcc lies?
Message-ID:  <199607072018.QAA24582@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199607070742.JAA15222@allegro.lemis.de> (grog@lemis.de)

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  > 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.

gcc 2.7.x allows you to specify alignment, and has superior
optimizations to gcc 1.42.  Maybe nobody at BSDI has looked that
closely at the idea?

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