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Re: Pentium-gcc

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From: Alex Kowalenko
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 00:00
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Neil Symons (neil@blitzen.canberra.edu.au) wrote:
: 
: It might already have been discussed before and I would like to apologies
: if it has already.
: 
: Now to be able to use the Pentium Optimised Kernel, you need a Pentium
: optimised gcc right? Well I would like to get some more info about the
: compiler.
: 
: Is it stable so far?

I've been running 1.3.94 (and 1.3.88 earlier) compiled with a pentium 
enhanced version of gcc 2.7.2 (penitum patch level 9) for 3 weeks with
no crashes or problems. I think that it's just noticely faster. 

Just stick to optimization levels -O2 or less.

Alex
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From: alex@mpx.com.au (Alex Kowalenko)
Subject: Re: Pentium-gcc
Date: 1996/05/13
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