Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:19:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu>
Cc: dj AT delorie DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: v2 cross-compilation


On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Aaron Ucko wrote:

> dj200crx.zip contains no instructions.  Am I correct in assuming that this
> means that I can just target unmodified versions of gcc and binutils for
> i386-coff-go32?

Some info on this can be found at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/faq/cross/

> Also, some of the programs distributed with DJGPP (binutils and sed in
> particular) are not exactly the latest versions.  Are there any plans
> to remedy this?

DJ has decided to stay with Sed 1.18 because all later versions (2.05 and 
3.00) are much slower, probably due to the new regexp library (Rx) they 
are using.  Sed 2.05 also had a bad habit of gobbing ludicrous amounts of 
memory on some scripts.  I've seen it eating up 10 MBytes (!) of memory 
on a 100-line script that just substituted strings.  This has been fixed 
in 3.0, but the speed problem apparently remains.