From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 27 13:57:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28058 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28024 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 13:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA10172; Wed, 27 May 1998 20:56:55 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA06599; Wed, 27 May 1998 22:56:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980527225647.36082@follo.net> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 22:56:47 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Robert Nordier Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Replacing gcc as the system compiler (was Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning) References: <19980527182337.47243@follo.net> <199805272004.WAA13789@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199805272004.WAA13789@ceia.nordier.com>; from Robert Nordier on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:04:11PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 10:04:11PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > You may need -ltdf during linking. What does this contain? Have you looked closely at XANDF? I'm seeing two real hurdles (beyond inertia) in using this as our main compiler: The use of asm() for some macros in the kernel, and the use of linker sets. What do you think our chance of working around these are? > There is currently an unresolved bug in i386 long long support: avoid > casting to long long. There is also what looks like a bug in handling of NULL - it doesn't allow the use of ((void *)0) as NULL for function pointers. I may remember the C standard incorrectly (I haven't looked it up), but I think it is required to. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message