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From: duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: How to compile/install libg++2.2.2
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:23:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hi,

I'm trying to compile libg++ on an Iris4d but I have a few problems.  I've
appended the messages I get during compilation if it may help anyone to see
what the problem is.

Let me first say that gcc, g++, etc are not installed in /usr/local.  I'm
trying to make sure everything works properly before I let unsuspecting users
bombard me with 'It don't work' messages.  As you can see, 'cc' is used to
compile everything.  I thought gcc or g++ was to be used (Is that what the
rootme macro is used for?).  Compilation coughs severely as you can see.

Is there a way to tell configure where to find gcc?  As in 
rootme=`dirname `which gcc`` (I know it's illegal but...)
or something similar?

Or am I seeing everything all wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

****************************



	echo "# !Automatically generated from ./functions.def"\
	  "- DO NOT EDIT!" >needed2.awk
	grep '^DEFVAR(' < ./functions.def \
	 | sed -e '/DEFVAR/s|DEFVAR.\([^,]*\).*|/\1/ { printf \"#ifndef NEED_\1\\n#define NEED_\1\\n#endif\\n" }|' \
	 >>needed2.awk
	grep '^DEFFUNC(' < ./functions.def \
	 | sed -e '/DEFFUNC/s|DEFFUNC.\([^,]*\).*|/\1/ { printf \"#ifndef NEED_\1\\n#define NEED_\1\\n#endif\\n" }|' \
	 >>needed2.awk
	echo "/* !Automatically generated from ./functions.def"\
	  "- DO NOT EDIT! */" >config.h
	awk -f needed2.awk <errors >>config.h
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  basename.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  getopt.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  getopt1.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  obstack.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  spaces.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  concat.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  fdmatch.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  argv.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  strerror.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  strsignal.c
	echo "# !Automatically generated from ./functions.def"\
	  "- DO NOT EDIT!" >needed.awk
	grep '^DEF(' < ./functions.def \
	    | sed -e '/DEF/s|DEF.\([^,]*\).*|/\1/ { printf \"\1\.o " }|' \
	    >>needed.awk
	awk -f needed.awk <errors >needed-list
	echo  >>needed-list
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  vfork.c
	cc -c -g -I. -I./../include  alloca.c
	rm -rf libiberty.a
	ar qc libiberty.a \
	  basename.o getopt.o getopt1.o obstack.o spaces.o concat.o  fdmatch.o argv.o strerror.o strsignal.o vfork.o alloca.o 
	true libiberty.a
	rootme=`pwd` ; export rootme; CC="cc `if [ -f ${rootme}/../gcc/gcc ] ; \
	then echo -I${rootme}/../gcc/include ; \
	else echo ; fi`"; export CC; \
	./utils/gen-params  >tmp-params.h
cc: Error: no source file
libmld: ldopen:cannot open dummy.o
nm: Error: cannot open dummy.o
libmld: ldopen:cannot open dummy.o
nm: Error: cannot open dummy.o
nm failed to find FUNC in dummy.o!
./utils/gen-params: -1: bad number
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
-- 
Laurent Duperval
duperval@ere.umontreal.ca
duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca
"If you gotta go, you might as well go happy... or suprised"   -Me
From: ebrown@bud_light.kodak.com (Eric Brown)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: cross compiling & 80x86
Date: 24 Aug 92 03:06:19 GMT
Reply-To: ebrown@tap.kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company


I have two questions.

1. Is GNU working well as a cross compilier in general yet?

2. I know there is a gcc for 386 unix & extended dos, but is there
any chance of a cross compilier version of gcc that generates 
windows compatible 16-bit code?

Eric.
ebrown@tap.kodak.com
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Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: fieldd@cuug.ab.ca (Dan Field 283-7034)
Subject: quad precision on sun4
Organization: Calgary UNIX User's Group
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:29:05 GMT

Apologies if this is a faq, but do you have suggestions for how to turn
on quad precision instruction generation for gcc-2.2.2 on a sparc v8
architecture?  I've made the obvious changes to the sparc.h file in
the config directory to define the LONG_DOUBLE_TYPE_SIZE constant. It
seems no matter what I do, generated code for type "long double" is
treated as type "double".

Thanks.

    Dan Field
From: hlu@poly2.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: cross compiling 386 code on SUN or AIX boxes
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:22:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Sep3.212229.23186
Organization: Washington State University

In article <1992Sep3.085818@se05.wg2.waii.com>, dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:
|> Has anyone tried this?  I built gcc fine on a SUN and rs6000 box...and tried 
|> to make the cross-compiler ... but I fail when I try to compile toplev.c ..
|> TARGET-DEFAULTS are wrong ...  I'm using xmi386dos.h and i386.h ...
|> 
|> -- 
|> Douglas L. Acker
|> 
|> Western Geophysical Exploration Products
|> Systems Engineer
|> 
|> Email (internal):  acker                Phone:  713-964-6128
|>       (Internet):  acker@wg2.waii.com

You need the source codes of ld, ar and as for 386. I am doing this
everyday. I just do

gcc -b i386-linux

to make binaries for Linux which is a Unix clone for 386.

H.J.
----
gcc/libc maintainter for Linux
From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: How much is gcc used ?
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:42:59 GMT
Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC
In-reply-to: mirchand@schubert.cs.unc.edu's message of 27 Aug 92 02:13:13 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 773b1ae6d0414401c8184ca29a69846f

In article <14783@borg.cs.unc.edu> mirchand@schubert.cs.unc.edu (Jaideep Mirchandani) writes:

   I am trying to convince my boss to switch to gcc. He says that he will only
   do so if :
   1. gcc has been used in a real product.

Data General and NeXT use gcc as their native compilers that ship with
each one of their systems.  their whole systems are compiled using
gcc. is that a real enough product for your boss?  the next berkeley
release, 4.4BSD, uses gcc as its compiler.

   2. It has been used with networking software, tcpip, Sun rpc, etc.

see above.

   3. It works on (yuck)PC's, esp. OS/2 and Windows.

you can find versions for DOS and OS/2.  don't know about windows.

   He wants hard evidence of its viability largely because it is 
   unsupported. 

your boss makes a rather unsupportable claim here, most likely due to
his own ignorance.  if he wants support, he can buy it from a handful
of companies and consultants that offer it.  similarly, if he buys a
compiler from Sun, it doesn't mean he'll get support -- he still has
to pay for that.  the thing with gcc is that you can get the compiler
for free.
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Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
Subject: The meaning of "free"
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:00:58 GMT

      the thing with gcc is that you can get the compiler for free.

I urge people to avoid using the term "for free" to describe what
is free about GNU software.

The word "free" in "free software" refers to liberty, not price.
Specifically, it refers to the users' freedom to study, copy, change
and improve the software.  This is the freedom that the GNU General
Public License protects.  Sometimes users get copies of GNU software
"for free", and sometimes they pay for copies.  But regardless of how
they got the software, they have the freedom to copy and change it.
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: tim@mdd.comm.mot.com (Tim Rosmus)
Subject: Ok, I give up (compiling glib 1.04) :-(
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:37:45 GMT

  I must have missed something very  obvious but I have never been  able
to compile glib-1.03 completely, and now I can't even get to first  base
with 1.04.  What's the trick to  get this stuff to compile????  

    System Facts
HW	Sun3, Sun4
OS	SunOS-4.1.1
tools	gnumake 3.62, gcc-2.2.2

Here's as far as I got?

Script started on Fri Sep  4 13:24:29 1992
% [0] pwd
/u/src/glib-1.04

% [1] sh configure --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --prefix=/u --exec_prefix=/u --srcdir=. sun3-sunos4.1

Configuring the GNU C Library for `m68k-sun-sunos4.1'.
Using system-dependent files from directories:
m68k/fpu unix/bsd/sun/sunos4 unix/bsd/sun/m68k unix/bsd/sun unix/bsd m68k

% [2] gnumake
Makeconfig:71: extraneous text after `include'
sysdeps/..:1: missing separator.  Stop.

% [3] vi Makeconfig

*** Here I changed line 71 from ...
    include $(common-objpfx)config.make
to ...
    include config.make

% [4] gnumake
gnumake: fopen: sysd-dirs: No such file or directory
gnumake: fopen: sysdirs: No such file or directory
gnumake: fopen: depend-: No such file or directory
Makerules:201: multiple target patterns.  Stop.
% [5] exit
% [6] 
script done on Fri Sep  4 13:25:41 1992
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Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: jle9162@venus.tamu.edu (ECKHARDT, JASON LEE)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: GCC for DOS help
Date: 24 Aug 1992 04:15:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


  I just got djdev107.zip, djgcc222.zip, djgas138.zip and followed all
the directions for installing and setting up and can't seem to compile 
anything.
When I do: gcc somefile.c 
I just get "unrecognized file type: 0x6923" 
I noticed that 0x6923 is the binary rep. of "#i" which is the first two
characters of my c source file line #1 "#include ".

I've been using gcc for unix for awhile now and have never seen this error...

please help...

Thanks, jason    ..... jle9162@venus.tamu.edu
From: geoff@netcom.com (Geoffrey Leach)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: How to compile/install libg++2.2.2
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:31:38 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:

>I'm trying to compile libg++ on an Iris4d but I have a few problems.  I've
>appended the messages I get during compilation if it may help anyone to see
>what the problem is.
[stuff deleted]
>nm: Error: cannot open dummy.o
>nm failed to find FUNC in dummy.o!
>./utils/gen-params: -1: bad number
>*** Error code 1

I've been having the same problem i386/svr4 config.  The problem occurs in
the libg++ sub-directory.

BTW, it would make life easier if the cd to the subdir was not concealed by "@".
-- 
Geoffrey Leach		geoff@netcom.com
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: kemp@convex.com (Phil Kemp)
Subject: Re: Can't find file error with djgpp 1.08
Keywords: djgpp gcc 2.2.2 dos
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:39:10 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

Fixed!

In <kemp.715382541@convex.convex.com> kemp@convex.com (Phil Kemp) writes:

>d:/gnu/bin/gcc.exe version 1.07 Copyright (C) 1991 DJ Delorie
>Can't open file <-c>

It turns out that I was using the old 1.07 go32. I had left a copy in
my c:\bin dir. As soon as I started using the 1.08 version everything
started to work.


--
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CONVEX Computer Canada Ltd.           Fax:(403)-261-2029
Calgary, Alta.                  Internet:kemp@convex.com

Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: HANCZAK@FZIVMS.FZI.DE (Andrzej Hanczak)
Subject: Crosscompiler VMS -> Motorola 68k
Organization: FZI, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:31:10 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

Hi!

Since a longer time I'm trying to build a GNU C crosscompiler that will 
enable of compiling the files on VMS system and downloading themon the Motorola
68k based CPU board. I've got executable version of GNU C v2.2 compiler and it
works fine on my VAX machine. However I need an assembler (GAS) that can
understand the files generated by GCC. I've started to build the GAS on the VAX
for the M68k processor family. After compilation of the the sources, I get
error message while trying to link the objects. The problems are caused by two
variables that are defined in the VAXC library but declared in the source files 
of the assembler. The problem is that the attributes of this variables in
object files differ from the attributes in library (it is SHARE attribute).
VAXC compiler enables use of the "share" or "noshare" modifiers, however I
have not found this kind of modifiers in GNUC. Trying to compile this files
with VAXC compiler results in a number of compilatin errors.
Does anybody have an idea how to solve my problem -> GAS runing on VMS machine
and generating Motorola 68k object code. The other question is what to do next
with obtained object files. Can I use normal VAX linker or I need some other
one.

I will be greatfull for any help

  Andrzej Hanczak



++++++++++++++++++
Andrzej Hanczak                                         email hanczak@fzi.de
FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik                        phone +49-721-9654-332
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-7500 Karlsruhe, Germany      fax   +49-721-9654-309
From: driehuis@ooc.uva.nl (Bert Driehuis)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: Problems with #include <unistd.h>
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:42:10 GMT
Organization: ooc.uva.nl

hvaisane@cs.joensuu.fi (H. Vaisanen) writes:
>I am using gcc version 2.2.2 in DECstation 3100 under Ultrix V4.2

>When I do #include <unistd.h> I get error messages for conflicting
>types of functions, like this:

>/usr/local/gnu/lib/g++-include/unistd.h:57:
>  conflicting types for `int  chown (const char *, short int, short int)'
I ran into the same thing on BSDI (but for slightly different calls), and
went around it by adding "#define chown __hide__chown" before the
"#include_next <stdlib.h>", and a corresponding "#undef chown" after.
Be sure to put them around the correct #include_next, there are two in
each file. In some of the libg++ supplied files you'll see the same approach.

Seeing that the distributed files do the same, I am left wondering why
the original is included in the first place. I guess that the #include_next
is to pick up local differences in symbolic constants, etcetera. In that
case, wouldn't it be a good idea to protect all calls defined in the libg++
include files in the same way?
-- 
Bert Driehuis, driehuis@ooc.uva.nl
Morssingel 243, 2312 EX Leiden, The Netherlands.
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: pierre@la.tce.COM (Pierre Willard)
Subject: Re: How much is gcc used ?
Reply-To: pierre@la.tce.com
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:18:36 GMT

> I am trying to convince my boss to switch to gcc. He says that he will only
> do so if :
> 1. gcc has been used in a real product.
> 2. It has been used with networking software, tcpip, Sun rpc, etc.
> 3. It works on (yuck)PC's, esp. OS/2 and Windows.

DESQview/X X11 toolkit includes GNU C Compiler !!
(with DOS4GX Dos Extender).


Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: dale@heurikon.UUCP (Dale Wade)
Subject: Question on bitfield implementation...
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:51:11 GMT


Sir or Madam,

I am using gcc version 1.37.1, targeting the Motrola 68020 architecture.
I found this email address while searching through the "Using and Porting
GNU CC" document for the info that I need.  What I am looking for is
information on how bitfields within a structure are implemented in gcc
(when compiling for the above architecture).  i.e. Can one be assured that
bitfields assigned from the top to the bottom of the structure are packed
LSB to MSB (or perhaps the reverse)?  Is there any word or byte aligning
that takes place?  Any padding?  And can one always count on these rules
(the rules that hopefully you will be able to give me)?

Thank you in advance for any help that you can offer.


Sincerely,
-Dale Wade


+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|     Dale Wade                     |     email: dale@heurikon.com             |
|     Software Customer Support     |     voice: (800) 327-1251                |
|     Heurikon Corporation          |            (608) 831-5500                |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: WOES TRYING TO GET GCC 2.2.2 going!!
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:47:36 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University

Well I am using QEMM 6.02 and the brand-neest GNU C++ compiler for
DOS.. like GO32 v 1.08 and 2.2.2 for Gcc. However no way that I know will
it allow me to be running QEMM while trying to do gcc.. it says.. needs
to be in real mode... do i need to run go32 to fix that.. so it can run
in VCPI or whatever.. what arguments need to be in the command line.

FInally, out of the 15 or so NEW DJGPP files at wuarchives .. I cannot
find a gcc.exe (COMPILER) anywayere.. where can i get it.. i see
cc1prog.exe, cc1obj.exe etc etc.. where can i find it..

thanks

chuck

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|    iDLE CHATTEr    |  cee1@MSSTATE.BITNET  |  unless they are not.  |
+--------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+
From: jtien@venice.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien)
Subject: Re: email address of Pat Wood
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Reply-To: jtien@venice.eng.uci.edu (Joe Tien)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 2 Sep 92 03:50:21 GMT

The wording on my post was ambiguous. The email addresses listed were unreachable,
that's why I'm looking for his new address. Those addresses were just for reference.

Just want to clarify things so I don't get flamed. 

Joe Tien
From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: GCC on OS/2 ?
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:34:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <bfppb1gy@csv.warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
+Sorry for the dumb question, I'm sure this has been answered before, but is
+there a port of GCC for OS/2 ?

There is an 'ftp-able' OS/2 port on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. That's 'New
Mexico State Uni.'.

Since I only got this for a friend who has an OS/2 system I can't
vouch for it's fitfulness. The level of revision was 2.1 which is
currently out of date with prep.ai.mit.edu at 2.2.2.

I found several news groups devoted to OS/2 and mentioned use of GCC
so I would recomend checking them out for details of useage and
setup.

-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
From: Marc_Van-Woerkom@ac3.maus.de (Marc Van-Woerkom)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: GCC on OS/2 ?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 01:45:00 GMT
Organization: MausNet
X-Gateway: MausGate/News 1.11

ju> vouch for it's fitfulness. The level of revision was 2.1 which is
ju> currently out of date with prep.ai.mit.edu at 2.2.2.

gcc/2 is 2.2.2 now.
emx can be brought up to 2.2.2. (A detailled instruction can be found @hobbes)


Bye, Marc
From: rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: gcc executables still slower than cc exes on Sun 4?
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:25:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources

I remember 2-3 years ago that programs compiled with gcc on Sun 4
(Sparc) machines ran slower than programs compiled with cc.  At that
time I made a simple test with gawk, and found that indeed it was
slower with gcc, so gave up using gcc.

Just now I tried gcc v. 1.40 and it seems that gawk and mawk are still
slower with gcc than cc.  Will that be true of most c programs?
Anything in the works to make gcc executables faster?
--
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rfinch@water.ca.gov		...ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch
Any opinions expressed are my own; they do not represent the DWR
From: eonu24@castle.ed.ac.uk (I Reid)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Direct video question (djgcc)
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:59:17 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Edinburgh University

Hi! I've just started playing about with DJ's port of GCC for MSDos (not quite
the latest version, but it was all I had to hand) and I was trying to implement
some graphics bits and bobs using it. I've had a couple of problems with this
and I wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction/send me some
code. I will of course summarise if there is any interest.

The problem...

I have a number of slices of data which I want to read into memory (about 130K
each) and display on my Tseng 4000 based SVGA setup. 

1. Am I correct in thinking that that the protected mode stuff is set up to map
my 1Mb of video memory into a linear chunk of memory at 0xD0000000? If so, can
I allocate some memory with malloc, read my file into it and do something like
this?

memcpy (0xD0000000, buf, 512);

where buf is my malloc'ed memory. I've been trying to do this but have been
getting segmentation problems. Any clues anyone?

2. I read in the notes on libgr.a that djgcc understands the paging mechanisms
used by various supervga cards. Can anyone send me some sample code for
performing the mode switch to 800x600 'cos all I seem to be able to get from it
is 320x200 which isn't much use to me.

Many thanks,

Iain
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
Subject: gcc executables still slower than cc exes on Sun 4?
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:47:44 GMT

GCC version 1 maintenance aims at stability above all.
If you want improvements of any sort, use version 2,
currently in beta test.
From: kong@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Timothy Kong)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: need gcc documentation
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:39:16 GMT
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Originator: kong@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu

Hello fellow netters.  Our research group needs to modify gcc to generate
code that, among other things, will flag pointer accesses and do some
stuff with pointers.  We are looking for information on the internals
of gcc and any tutorial/book that may be useful.  We already have "Using
and Porting GNU CC," but that is not enough.  Thanks in advance for any
help.

Timothy Kong
kong@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu
From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: gcc executables still slower than cc exes on Sun 4?
Date: 31 Aug 1992 19:47:53 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: forney.berkeley.edu

In article <RFINCH.92Aug28112533@venice.water.ca.gov|> rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) writes:
|>I remember 2-3 years ago that programs compiled with gcc on Sun 4
|>(Sparc) machines ran slower than programs compiled with cc.  At that
|>time I made a simple test with gawk, and found that indeed it was
|>slower with gcc, so gave up using gcc.

|>Just now I tried gcc v. 1.40 and it seems that gawk and mawk are still
|>slower with gcc than cc.  Will that be true of most c programs?
|>Anything in the works to make gcc executables faster?

gcc 2.x is substantially faster on the Sparc than gcc 1.x.  Get gcc-2.2.2.



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