Subject: Re: egcs on i386 status
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 11/26/1998 11:14:44
Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> Just wondering about the current status of egcs on the i386.  I'd really
> hate to have to back everything out to get back to gcc 2.7.2 just to
> compile a new kernel, but I've gotten way behind -current.
> 
> So, is it "safe" or do we still have known (optimization?) errors?

I winged quite a bit, but was in error - I am happily running current/i386
built with egcs 1.1.1 - built the world twice and XFree 3.3.3, and so far so
good. I don't know where those signal 11s I kept mentioning were coming from,
but they have absolutely ceased to appear!

Cheers,

Patrick