egcs-971225 on i386-pc-bsdos3.1, test results. (was Re: x86 EH on BSD/OS with snapshot gas not working..)

[Robert Lipe]

> robertl> I can't recall BSD/OS being represented on the list.  [ This
> robertl> isn't to say that it isn't, only that I can't recall it. ]
> robertl> So it's possible that you may be among the first to try it.
> 
> I've sent some of test results while ago to law@cygnus, but may be the
> test result was incoplete.

My comment was more to the point that there doesn't seem to be 
a regular person banging on this target and announcing it on 
the list frequently enough that I recall them.   


> Hmm. I haven't tried on other platforms -- so I don't know current
> expected result. The unexpected failures are really bad news -- right?

You can find some good Linux results (essentially a clean slate) at
	http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1998-Jan/0065.html
SCO Unixware 2:
	http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1997-Dec/1217.html
SCO OpenServer 5 suffers from a few more failures becuase it's 
   both COFF and ELF and not everything in EGCS handles that really well:
	http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1997-Dec/1094.html


Random hint:  Until you get the C compiler to pass, don't sweat C++.
Until they both pass, don't worry much about the libraries.


> robertl> Missing that, build a cross compiler to target, say,
> robertl> i386-pc-linux.  Use that compiler to generate a .s file and
> robertl> compare the output with that on your native compiler.
> 
> Hmm. that's good idea. I'll try that tonight. (it's about noon in Japan.)

That's the way we slowly brought the OpenServer port to a level
of quality comparable (but not quite equal yet) to the Linux stuff.

Any user of free software on an x86 system would be silly to not 
hitch a ride on the Linux train and all the smart guys that are
banging on that target. :-)

> dje> EGCS finally has prompted them to get NetBSD x86 ELF support
> dje> working.  I believe that BSD/OS and NetBSD are very similar, so
> 
> Very similar, but still not have ELF support (expected in future
> release, as I heard.)

This is probably a key newsflash.   I didn't know it wasn't an ELF
target, but I don't do BSD on x86.   The ELF support has certainly
been the favored format in the code, so it's going to be the most
exercised.

Good luck.

RJL