Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x

Richard Henderson (rth@dot.cygnus.com)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:25:26 -0700

On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 11:18:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And I hope that not all egcs people consider it impossible to fix
> bugs, and that some of them will be instead more motivated to fix the
> problems than to ignore them.

Not impossible. But due to some rather fundamental flaws it will
take 3 or 4 months of solid engineering work, since it requires an
entirely new register allocator.

r~

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