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Re: bootstrapping with `cc -n32' on IRIX 6.3 fails compare
On Mar 24, 1999, jerry@cs.ucsb.edu (Jerry James) wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>, on 24 Mar 1999 at 05:27:06 -0300
> (how's that for overkill?) you wrote:
>> Thanks. I get:
>>
>> oliva@duerer% versions | grep c_dev
>> I c_dev 11/12/97 C, 7.0
>>
>> Pretty old, huh? :-(
> Wow, you have one of the original version 7 compilers!
I'm a tough guy, ain't I? :-D
> That's a pretty buggy compiler you've got there, I'm afraid.
Then it's amazing that egcs can bootstrap with it, in spite of needing
4 stages!
> You'd be better off with the version 6.2 compiler.
No way. We don't have it. In fact, I believe we've got this old
compiler because people forgot to buy it and someone found us
miserable enough to give us a license for it :-)
Moreover, no one really uses cc here; the only use I have for it is to
test egcs :-)
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