3.4.6 build

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Sun Feb 27 19:30:00 GMT 2011


kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com> writes:

> I am watching a Quadra 700 (25 MHz 68040) running NetBSD 1.6.1 try to
> build 3.4.6. It is currently trying to build libgcc (I think?). My
> question is the user/system cpu percentages are in the 20%/80% range.
> Why so much system time? It has 68M of ram so it does not appear to be
> swapping. ??? Off the top of your head anyone know what it is doing?

The functions in libgcc are mostly very small.  The time is being
dominated by file I/O rather than by actual compilation.

> P.S.:  It keeps recompiling libgcc2.c with different symbols defined:
> L_fixtfdi, L_fixunstfdi, etc. This like a c++ template?

No.  Look at gcc/libgcc2.c.

Ian



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