Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!labrea!rutgers!bpa!manta!brant From: brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: compiling gcc-1.31 Message-ID: <455@manta.pha.pa.us> Date: 8 Dec 88 20:47:52 GMT References: <796@thor.stolaf.edu> Reply-To: brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia Lines: 24 In article <796@thor.stolaf.edu> mike@wheaties.ai.mit.edu writes: >I haven't gotten around to testing the thing much, but -O and -g both >seem to work [...] >I will also use it to compile Emacs, TeX, and Metafont. The gcc-1.31 that I'm running successfully compiled the latest web2c/TeX/LaTeX available from ics.uci.edu. I needed the -traditional and -writable-strings options on web2c and tangle, but the actual web2c-generated C source compiled fine with just -O. The result passed the trip test, and was 10K smaller than the pcc-produced version. Speed-up of about 10-15% on compiling a 45-page document. I tried building Gnu Emacs 18.52 using every combination of -O, -traditional, and -writable-strings, with no luck. An executable was created that consistently core-dumped while loading rmail. I haven't tried to track the problem down. I will be putting the binaries in the anonymous Internet FTP area on linc.cis.upenn.edu within a few days. -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science brant@manta.pha.pa.us, brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, bpa!manta!brant