From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To: terra AT diku DOT dk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP V2.01 Released
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:20:04 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:  <9610231420.aa24969@ailin.inti.edu.ar>


>"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar> writes:
>>  I understand the DJ actitude, BUT is very very very dificult download and 
>>remake the compiler, this takes a lot of time, and I guess that the 80% of the 
>>beginners (less that 1 years involved in C) can't do that.
>>  So is better if the distribution includes (NOT in v2gnu dir, but in v2 dir) a 
>> compilation of GCC 2.7.2 with:
>>a) Pentium optimization.

>So far such a thing does not exist.  Some work is being done in a
>Linux setting with it but it is not stable.  Linus gets slightly
>upset every time some alleged kernel bug turns out to be someone
>using a buggy pentium "optimizer".
>Yes, it is a lot of work to download and compile your own compiler,
>but if you want to run experimental stuff that is sometimes what it
>takes.  The rest of us get a better tested compiler and pay the
>small price in efficiency.  Newcomers should not run experimental
>software unknowingly.
Morten I understand your point BUT: 
I'm talking about a parallel version NOT a replacement.
I saw a mail of somebody that succesfully patched the DJGPP version so isn't a 
Linux mather. And if you see any problem you can use the compiler without the 
new optimizations.

>>d) Any other useful and tested improvement.
>>  Adding a great advice: THIS VERSION IS NOT AN OFICIAL FSF ONE.
>In the past FSF did distribute djgpp.  That kind-of makes it
>official.
Well but again I don't want to put out the actual files, I only want another 
files to allow to anybody that wants an optimized version download it and not 
spend a lot of hours in recompiling a compiler.

 Some improvements like the section one are very very needed, you know, 
automatic locking is a very helpful thing.

>Morten
 ^^^^^^ Are you the author of the debugger?, Do you still supporting it?

SET
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