Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/09/08/09:46:26
On 3 Sep 2001 at 13:45, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
> The reason for the failure seems to be the processor.
> I am using a system composed by:
> MB: Tyan Trinity 100AT
> uP: SGS-Thomson ST6x86 P166+ (FSB 66MHz, CPU Multiplicator: 2x)
> RAM: 32MB (fast page) + 32MB (edo)
Read
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
Something at this place could be usefull (Problems with Cyrix CPUs are mentioned there ...)
Andris
>
> Please note that the uP is certainly *not* overclocked.
> The only way to get gcc-301 working is to disable the internal
> CPU cache (using BIOS settings). Disabling on-board L2 cache has
> no influence. I have reduced FSB to 60MHz and reduced CPU Multiplicator
> to 1x but it had no positive influence. I have substituted the board with
> a Chaintech 5IFM but I have got no positive results. This old
> board allows FSB of 55 MHz and 50 MHz. Lowering FSB seems to have
> no influence and the only way to get gcc working with a cyrix cpu
> (the cpu has no MMX instructions) seems to be to disable the
> internal cache. Of course, this measure is not acceptable at all
> due to the impressive slow-down.
> I am very sorprised about all this. I have been using gcc30b.zip
> for a month without any difficulty. I expected gcc301b.zip
> to be only a minor bug fix release and not to cause such
> difficulties.
>
> Btw, I have tried to recompile gcc301s.zip. This seems impossible
> using win95 (4.00.950). The genattrib program always dies with
> the message that virtual memory has become exhausted. (DPMI
> memory available=48726KB, DPMI swap space available=16106KB).
> Am I missing something here? Can win95 not be used to compile gcc301?
>
>
> Regards,
> Guerrero, Juan Manuel
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