Re: make world with gcc version 2.7.2 or pgcc 2.7.2.9?

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Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Date
17 May 1996 20:37:43
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Re: make world with gcc version 2.7.2 or pgcc 2.7.2.9?
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199605180337.VAA00504@rocky.sri.MT.net

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>   NW> 'probably bogus' and faster code.  Since there are known bugs,
> NW> given a system the size of FreeBSD the possibility of the bug
> NW> being tickled *somewhere* is high. And, given that the speedups
> NW> for stock gcc aren't stupendous (unlike pgcc which can be quite
> NW> high, but the code generation is suspect in many cases) it's not
> NW> worth it.
>
> Hmm. Do the pentium patches introduce new bugs?

Definitely.


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