SCO experiences

[Horst von Brand]

"Bill Walker" <bw@student.ecok.edu> said:
> Experience 1:
> 
> I used the new compiler to build emacs 20.1, just to see what would happen.
> It compiled fine, but produced a code file (ELF) about 500K larger than
> 970907 does.  I don't know why, yet.

Did you use -fno-exceptions? The (totally useless to C) exception handling
management makes executables _way_ bigger.

Try emacs-20.2 (20.1 gets zombies when trying to go to another MH folder;
20.2 cures that)

> Experience 5:
> 
> 	The egcs project seems to be a useful one, and the dedicated folks
> involved seem both pleasant and highly competent.  I am really glad to
> see this kind of talent and interaction on such an important project.
> 
> 	Heartfelt congratulations to the entire team, and I encourage you
> to keep up the wonderful work you have begun.

Seconded.
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