Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:30:05 +0200
From: Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy AT bspu DOT unibel DOT by>
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To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net
Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.02 Beta 981027 (with question to Robert Hoehne at the bottom too)
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Andris wrote:
> Therefore I didn't include crtf.o when ported egcs-1.1 as I did it with
> DJGPP 2.02 (I used slightly patched alpha-980726, patched 
> malloc.c and doserr2e.c) as I built egcs-1.1 for DJGPP last time
> when next alpha (980907) was not yet released.
> DJ, I hadn't met any serious problems with DJGPP port of egcs-1.1
> except 2 known ones:
>         - current problems with exceptions (works in not all conditions),
>         also -fsjlj-exceptions is broken in egcs-1.1 also in Linux,
>         there are even more problems with exceptions when 
>         -fomit-frame-pointer is used;
>         - Novel related problems that recently were fixed in port of
>         gcc-2.81 (I simply haven't rebuild egcs-1.1 yet)
> As the result I think that maybe it is worth to move egcs-1.1 to
> beta stage even without rebuilding. I suggest  v2gnu/betas/egcs-1.1
> (not 1.1a as there is no source difference between 1.1a and
> 1.1b). I'm only afraid that DJGPP port of egcs-1.1 will sty in beta 
> stage for rather long time (may be wi'll have to wait for egcs-1.1.1
> or something similar). But anyway I think it is good enough for beta.
How  about rebuilding egcs-1.1 with Novel-related patch and mark it as
a beta version then?

Also  there  was  a  problem  in  the  linker from BNU 2.8.1 regarding
exception   handling   too.   AFAIK,   it   was  fixed  in  BNU  2.9.1
(www.pcg.com/data/djgpp/bnu291.zip)  but  this  archive isn't at DJGPP
distribution  sites.  Thus,  may  be  fixed  version of linker (entire
bnu291.zip)  should be placed together with beta version of DJGPP 2.02
and EGCS 1.1?

To  Robert  Hoehne:  could you write something about version of binary
utils BNU291 that located at http://www.pcg.com/data/djgpp/bnu291.zip?
Is it possible to place it in the /v2gnu or v2gnu/beta? I read
readme.djg from it but did not understand: is it port of official BNU
2.9.1 or it is simple correction to BNU2.8.1?

Best regards,
Alexander Bokovoy, <bokovoy AT bspu DOT unibel DOT by>
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