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Subject: Re: linux, pgcc and xfree332
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On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 12:38:53AM +0200, frank_stulle AT public DOT uni-hamburg DOT de wrote:
> > I am using Linux 2.0.32 and I'm wondering if there would be any speed
> > enhancement when I compile the XFree332-Source with PGCC instead of using the
> > precompiled binaries?
> > Do you think this is worth the work?
> 
> I'm not sure... The speed enhancement depends on your hardware.. a well-accelerated
> driver usually doesn't get much from improved code. The old XFree2.0 svga server
> was quite improved back when I had a cirrus and made benchmarks...
> 
> At the moment, neither egcs nor pgcc seem to be able to compile xfree332 correctly
> on my system (everything except the servers work fine, though).

here, nearly everything compiled fine.. there was one file that caused
some weird (shouldn't happen) error, and a removal of "-pedantic -ansi"
allowed it to go on. from my pgcc experience, anything above -O2 will
cause weird problems.
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