Subject: re: NetBSD-current on sparc64 comments
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/28/2001 15:35:24
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, matthew green wrote:

>
>    >            - The only real issue I've hit is that there seems to be
>    >              a problem compiling C++. A 'hello world' program will
>    >              fail at runtime with:
>    >    /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.4: Undefined symbol "" (reloc type = 54, symnum = 18)
>    >              gcc -v reports 2.95.3. Was this toolchain used to build
>    >              the snapshot? (ie: groff)
>    >
>    > groff doesn't use libstdc++, but this is basically a known issue.  C++
>    > in general doesn't work on sparc64 though some applications that only
>    > use a small subset of C++ (like groff) will work just ine.
>
>    	IS the new toolchain liable to affect this?
>
> sparc64 & C++ probably won't be fixed until post GCC 3.0.  i don't know.
>
	OK thanks.

>    	Many thanks - my free memory appears to be usefully caching files
>    	now :) Is there any reason we do not autosize NVNODE more usefully
>    	based on the total memory?
>
>
> one assumes that chuq will deal with the too-small vnode issue sometime,
> it was only "recently" (3 months ago?) posted about on tech-kern.

	Is there an open PR?

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