pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) (07/01/90)
In article <223@iphase.UUCP> floydf@iphase.UUCP (Floyd Ferguson ENG) writes: In article <1990Jun27.232700.3046@virtech.uucp>cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: > SCO UNIX (with its inclusion of the standard AT&T compiler) should alleviate > many of these problems. In my opinion the C compiler situation in SCO is THE most unsatisfactory part of the package. Including rcc (Real C) barely makes up for the I understand that rcc stands for Register C Compiler, the successor to pcc, the Portable C Compiler. On other versions of SystemV/386 it is called cc. While I've successfully compiled gcc and xemacs with rcc, gdb would not go, Well, with GNU software that uses alloca(), it is *vital* to turn off the default inline procedure expansion doen by the optimizer, using option '-W2,-y0' along with the '-O' one. I cannot imagine why ever AT&T put in a very sophisticated optimizer that does tricky things without documenting its zillion options. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk