Re: gcc-2.8.0
James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 11:41:36 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 03:27:00PM -0700, Michael Driscoll wrote:
> > Installed gcc-2.8.0 and libg++-2.8.0, and recompiled the kernel.
> ...
> > Did not notice any trouble until I tried using svgalib applications.
> > squake, qwcl, zgv, etc. all screwed up the console in the same way
> > (random lines etc all over the screen, nothing coherent at all).
> > The console still responded to keyboard input but I couldn't figure out
> > how to restore the console so I would reboot.
>
> The problem is in anything using routines from ioport.c . There has
> been discussion about this lately, read some old posts.
Ahh... now I think I see why I don't have this problem: I use -O16
-mpentium, not -O2 (hand-hacked makefiles -- in the quite obvious way).
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