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.... -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf