Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/05/04/03:43:45
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:
> >Would somebody please build this for DJGPP?
> I'm happy to do this if nobody minds that it is compiled with pgcc on -O2
> (should be very similar to what gcc 2.8 can do).
I don't think anybody will care which version of the compiler are used
to build the binary, as long as it runs and doesn't crash. Besides,
those who do care can always fetch the sources and rebuild it with
another version of GCC. So please go ahead, if you have the time.
If you do decide to work on this, I would like to ask you to look
whether a couple of small changes I submitted about a year ago made it
into this version. I still have the diffs I sent to the maintainers
and I can mail them to you. I didn't get any response from the
maintainers at the time, but it doesn't mean they ignored the
reports. The changes are important enough (one tremendously speeds up
GDB startup time, the other prevents it from locking up when debugging
program that switch their stdin to binary mode), so if they aren't
there, they should be applied to 4.17 as well.
(Sorry to ask you to do such trivial chores, but I'm tremendously
swamped these days with the Emacs pretest and several other things,
like porting the new Texinfo, etc., etc...)
> Also, binutils 2.9 has been released as well, although I am
> not sure if there are any changes that would affect djgpp in it.
If the changes are small, there should be no problem to build 2.9 for
DJGPP, and having a newer version that doesn't change much never
hurts. Since GDB uses the BFD library, it is probably a good idea to
port Binutils 2.9 as well (if you have time). It would be a good idea
to correct the problem with 2.8.1 whereby stripping adds 2KB to the
stub (seems like it tries to align the stub to 4KB).
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