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Re: egcs on sgi-irix6.x



On Mar  2, 1999, "Andre Heidegger" <nh@ier.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> on your build-status page you wrote:

> mips-sgi-irix6.3
> Successful 

> mips-sgi-irix6.4
> Successful

This means egcs has built on those platforms, which it did.

> But nevertheless we have problem to use egsc-g++ on these systems due 
> to the native assembler, which only allows strings of 256 characters:


> Since you wrote on http://egcs.cygnus.com/install/specific.html:

> mips*-sgi-irix6
> You must not use GAS on irix6 platforms; doing so will only cause
> problems. 

> we cannot install GAS to solve this problem. What can we do?

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