Re: compiling X11R4 under AOS for mpel

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From: Scott Schwartz
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 07:30

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In article <1990Jan9.154135.13344@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu writes:
>Can anyone (ibm?) recommend the proper compilers to use in compiling
>the server directory for AOS/mpel?  I tried a vanilla compile which does
>everything as hc (2.1s) -O and the results seem less than wonderful --
>specifically, magic (6.0 beta) causes the server to go off into the trees
>by trying to draw some scrollbar glyphs manually using XDrawPoint().

Try with gcc, if you have it.  I don't have R4 in hand, yet, so I don't
know if this will win, but hc2.1s definately generates bad code, so you
probably can't do much worse.  (Yes, the codegeneration bugs have been
reported to IBM -- about three months ago.)

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