Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!xanth!mcnc!rutgers!bpa!manta!brant From: brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Fed up with Gnu CC Message-ID: <450@manta.pha.pa.us> Date: 30 Nov 88 02:02:33 GMT Reply-To: brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) Distribution: unix-pc Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia Lines: 19 OK, folks, I've diddled unsuccessfully with GCC as much as I intend to for the near term. I tried compiling Gnu Emacs 18.52 with GCC 1.26 (Alex Crain's binaries), GCC 1.30, and GCC 1.31, always using gcc with the -O flag. In all cases the resulting executables did not work properly, usually bombing during startup, with a Bus Error or Memory Fault. My GCC 1.31 was initially compiled with GCC 1.26, and was able to successfully compile itself. I have gotten GCC to (apparently) successfully compile some other programs, including bison and gnuchess. Yet it's so inconsistent that I don't trust it. Unless someone can show me some mistake I made, I would recommend that those without the time or ability to become intimately familiar with GCC's innards (and thus help get it working) just leave it alone. -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science brant@manta.pha.pa.us, brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, bpa!manta!brant