Toomas Soome writes: > The immediate issue is https://www.illumos.org/issues/2757. In core, this > issue means that negative 32-bit numbers are not translated to negative > 64-bit numbers. Currently used gcc 4.4.4 does implement such translation in > compiler, there is no such patch for more recent compilers (firstly, the > code path in more recent compilers has changed a lot, and secondly, such > translation should be done by OS). This effectively does block switch from > gcc 4.4.4. I actually am running gcc 7 built system, knowingly, keeping in > mind that I may be bitten by problems cause by this issue.
In other words, when that issue is fixed, the primary compiler could be switched to gcc 7? > Secondly, there are SPARC optimizer issues in gcc 7 and gcc 9 (likely with > 10 as well), crashing compiler while building specific parts of illumos > tree. One example: [...] Could this be worked around by selectively turning off -O2 until that is fixed? > I haven’t had time to open bugreport with gcc. Fair enough. [...] > As a side note, it is interesting to see SPARC related discussion in this > list; there is no package repository for SPARC by OpenIndiana;) Yes. However, there are people working on new infrastructure for OI; as soon as that is in place there will be a public repo for OI/SPARC. Cheers -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Solaris-based Systems Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: v...@bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
