Re: DEC Alpha compiler problem (solved)

[ANTHONY LEE <al012 at energex dot com dot au>]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Jan Mannekens wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> The problem reported yesterday was solved by recompiling the whole gcc
> suite with the PAGE_SIZE variable in gcc/mips-tfile.c set to 8192 in
> stead of 4096.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jan.
> 
> PS:  Some people suggested me to build gcc with the flag_do_squangling
> set to 1 (in gcc/cp/decl2.c). Nobody could really explain me why I
> should do this, so I didn't. Anyone knowing the exact circumstances for
> enabling squangling of symbol names, please let me know (I work on a DEC
> Alpha XP900 True64 v 4.0F)

I thought that this is because without the flag gcc generate assembler source
files where the lines are too long for True64 and 4.0F assembler.

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