spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (08/06/88)
If you used gcc to compile the X11 release in time past, you
noticed that some button-boxes (notably the ones in xmh)
didn't hi-lite properly when selected.
Well, gcc 1.25 no longer causes that problem to occur.
I compiled the whole X11 distribution (modified with out
speed-ups plus some small code changes to make gcc happy)
with the options
-finline-functions -fcombine-regs -fomit-frame-pointer -O
(plus, of course, -traditional), and the resulting code
works 100% and is quite fast.
Two files dumped core with an IOT trap during the rebuild, and
those have been reported in the gcc bug list; compiling those
files with sun cc -O works fine.
Just thought you'd all like to know....
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Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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