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Re: Gnu C Bug (sorta)

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From: Dirk Grunwald
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1989 20:17
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We have installed `gcc' on the same configuration (iPSC/2 SRM).  If we
need to compile from scratch, e.g. if the previous version of `gcc'
was buggy or when we installed it first time, we compile everything
possible using `cc' (i.e. the greenhills compiler).  When that finally
died, we compiled the remaining files using `pcc', the portable C
compiler.

Between the two, they manage to compile everything (eventually).

Eventually, we decided to bag it & use cross compilation on an Encore
Multimax; the multimax compiles the code to .s files, which are
shipped to the SRM and assembled (*sigh* would it be that gas had COFF
support).

Although the SRM has a reasonable CPU, it is incredibly I/O bound; for
some programs (e.g. the inner loop of a parallel prolog byte
interpreter that was all one switch statement), the greenhills
compiler thrashed the system to death & eventually reported that the
routine was too big.

Gnu C (on the Encore) managed to compile it, although it *did* take
about 20Mb of swap to do it.

Thank you FSF.
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