> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 28 03:44:33 1998
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 04:41:18PM +1000, David Maslen wrote:
> > How is EGCS coming along. I'm interested in trying it for kernel
> > compilation on my SMP machine. Could somebody report the options they
> > have successfully used in the Makefile? I guess I'd want to use some
> > of the new optimisations, otherwise I'd stick with gcc. I use 2
> > PII233's.
>
> 2.0.x is a no-go with gcc 2.8.x and egcs/pgcc. This is not because of a
> bug in the compiler or kernel, it's simply because the optimizer improved
> to the point where it can optimize away some wait-loops used in 2.0.
>
> 2.1.122 seems rock-solid when compiled with egcs-1.1b, -O6 and -mcpu=i686.
>
> I've been running this kernel since it came out, on a pretty heavily loaded
> system. Seems ok.
Eh? I have about 1/2 dozen machines running redhat 5.1 with kernel
2.0.35 and egcs 1.03a. I have completely removed gcc on all these
machines so egcs is being used as the default compiler for everything.
So far I haven't had any problems.
C
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