Re: egcs & HP-UX 9.04

[Colin Douglas Howell <howell at cs dot stanford dot edu>]

Jeffrey A Law writes:
> 
>   In message <617C486F28F4D1119DD900805F5970980A2819@SRV2_NWM>you write:
>   > I notice on your "build status page", that HP-UX 9.04 is not reported as
>   > having been
>   > attempted.  Is this because egcs does not compile/run on the HP-UX 9.04
>   > platform?
>   > The first HP-UX platform listed is 9.05.
>   > 
>   > We are running HP-UX 9.04.  Your comments would be appreciated.  Thank
>   > you!!
> I'm not aware of any reason why it would not work, we just have not had
> anyone report that they'd built on that particular version of hpux.

One thing to watch out for is that HP's version numbering for HP-UX
9.0x is a bit peculiar.  HP-UX 9.04 and 9.05 are roughly the same
release, but 9.04 is actually meant for a different class of machines
than 9.05.  9.05 is meant for the model 700 series; 9.04 is meant for
the model 800 series.  Because of this, there are some noticeable
differences between the OS's.  I doubt these differences would affect
the building or operation of the compiler, but it's good to be aware
of them.

I suppose the model 700 vs. model 800 differences could also possibly
cause some code generation problems, if there are any differences
between the machines which affect the instruction set or instruction
scheduling.  This seems unlikely, however.

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