On 20011012 J Sloan wrote:
>After this post we should take it offline and
>let the s/n ratio on lkml settle back down to
>a dull roar - apologies for the noise, this is
>the last post on this dead horse.
>
>"T. A." wrote:
>
>
>Here is a heads-up for the benefit of those wondering
>about gcc-2.96:
>
>http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html
>
Nice, a bunch of comments about the front end. But you miss the point
that what was broken in gcc-2.96 was the back end (the optimizer).
And you missed that it needed about 50 updates to get a real compiler.
gcc that ships with RH 7.1 generates bad code in optimized mode. Do not
remember the exact post in LKML, but I saw 2 lines of code that made gcc
put the user initialization of a variable before the automatic one to zero.
If you want a good distro, take Mandrake 8.1.
-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.13-pre1-beo #1 SMP Fri Oct 12 11:32:03 CEST 2001 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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