Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/09/20/02:11:19
I still can't bootstrap the latest (20000918) snapshot on NT4 SP6. Seems to
be due to garbage collection changes in gcc and may be a mmap problem. See
gcc-bugs mailing list for details.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Prince [SMTP:tprince AT computer DOT org]
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 September 2000 15:37
> To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> Subject: gcc-2.96 progress
>
> I've been testing gcc-2.96 snapshots, mostly on cygwin, for quite a while,
> and yesterday's version provides a satisfactory g77 for
> the first time in many months. A noticeable difference is that the
> options -Os and -O2 at last live up to their intentions; -O2 is
> as fast as anything and -Os produces smaller code. I'm not so impressed
> with the reliability of the gcc or g++ compilers, given the
> inability to complete a bootstrap and the number of make check failures in
> g++ and its libraries, but it does look like progress.
> g77 runs make check and many other tests with the same result as on linux,
> aside from the continued habit of dejagnu of running the
> tests twice.
>
> I've made a long overdue revision of the procedure description for
> building gcc on cygwin, at
> http://members.aol.com/n8tm/cygwingccg77.htm If anyone has ways to make it
> better, please let me know; there's much room for
> improvement. Yes, I know the reasons why some of the steps I had to take
> aren't recommended. But anyway, gcc/g77 performs in the
> same league with the Compaq, Intel, and Lahey compilers on my T20 laptop,
> and the cygwin and gcc developers deserve a great deal of
> credit.
>
>
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