bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (05/22/89)
A GCC comment/status report/mild endorsement, seen in another newsgroup: From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Message-ID: <8905201832.AA11320@xenon.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 20 May 89 18:32:29 GMT The X server on the sun should build fine with GCC 1.35; rms gave me a preliminary version (1.34.92) to test before he shipped 1.35. I compiled our entire core sources (R3++) -O -g -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return and it ran without trouble. We are now regularly building the X server with GCC (as it nearly doubles the speed in monochrome) so you should expect fewer troubles with the next release of X (we just need to keep making sure it compiles with the sun compiler as well. Sigh). You should probably not use -finline-functions; gcc has a funny idea of "reasonable" inlinable functions; the sample server uses enough macros where needed for performance to make the speedup from -finline-functions negligable, while the code bloat is quite amazing. Keith Packard MIT X Consortium