Re: Native builds?

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Den 2018-09-12 kl. 09:00, skrev Martin Husemann:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > There has definitely been, but I would not be able to pinpoint it now. But I
> > used to do native builds on VAX in the past, and it would mostly work.
> gcc 4.1 was able to do that, but it required various #ifdef __vax__ in
> random places and also lots of -O0 or -O1 instead of the usual default
> -O2. Gcc 4.8 with our local patches came close too, but the upstream
> version would not run on NetBSD/vax at all (I tried to upstream
> the few needed patches, they still sit in their bugzilla and rot).
> Guess I should find time and push for them, also trying the latest
> upstream stuff w/o our local MD backend modifications.
IIRC the only version that has been mostly trouble-free on vax was GCC 2.96.
...from the beginning there were so many bugs in gcc so I had to use pcc 
for some parts, to be able to get a running system.

-- R