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Re: alloca when building SVR5 targets.
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: alloca when building SVR5 targets.
- From: jack craig <jackc at sageinst dot COM>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 14:20:41 -0700
- CC: Robert Lipe <robertl at sco dot com>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Sage Instruments, Inc.
- References: <3213.931467046@upchuck.cygnus.com>
Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> In message <19990708154313.F20237@rjlhome.sco.com>you write:
> > the good of the users. Hopefully it'll make the list (and I'll help
> > with the code) of things to address during the configury revamp for
> > GCC3.
> It is. I've always found the way we approach alloca during the build to be
> totally stupid. For a trivial amount of space in the cc1 binary we can
> rip out a bunch of crud in the Makefile and make it easier to mix-n-match
> .os between stages (which can be helpful when tracking down bugs when building
> the compiler itself).
>
> jeff
when making things simpler yields more robustness, you got my vote.in the
meantime robert found that i had stopped partway throught the stage 2-3 and
trying to simply make bootstrap again was giving me grief.
jackc...
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