alphaev56 build failed/EGCS-971225

[Dave Gilbert]

On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:

> The .arch pseudo-op is supported as of 2.8.1.0.18 as found at
> 
>   ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/
> or in a binutils snapshot at
>   ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/private/gas/
> 
> It should be trivial to upgrade since you've got rh5 installed already.

Wow! A good 10-20% speed up with -mcpu=21164a - Thanks Richard!!!
My Dhrystone/s are now upto 961K dhry/s (best was 892K before),
and Mesa's Triangle plotting rate has gone upto 191K triangles/second
over about 160K with the previous version of EGCS.

Notes:
  1) The binutils ....15 -> 17 and 17->18 patches appear to be broken 
    - patch complained about a lot of missing files; mainly docs
    but a few other things as well.

  2) Preusmably recompiling glibc would be a good idea? Are there
     21164/21164a versions of things like strcmp? (Are they hand coded?)

Now if I could get that to 1M dhry/second (pointless but fun...)

Dave

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