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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:04:00 +0100
From: Martijn Kruithof <jkf AT penguinpowered DOT com>
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Subject: Re: some success with xfree86 4.0
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Antony wrote:
> 
> I'm using pgcc 2.95.3 on a red hat 6.1 linux pentium3 box.
> 
> My kernel runs fine with -O6 -fno-peep-spills -fno-exceptions
> -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentiumpro.
> 
> XFree86 4.0 (on my nvidia tnt2) runs fine with -O2 -march=pentiumpro
> -fno-peep-spills -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions except that I
> had to go thru /etc/X11 and change any script that started with
> #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh. If anyone else can explain what i've done
> wrong here i'd appreciate it.
> 
> If I use -O3, -O4, -O5 or -O6 in the above setting then XFree86 will
> fail in small ways. gdm will run ok with bugs but enlightenment will
> freeze. Im continuing to narrow down which compiler flag is causing the
> problem.
> 

With XFree86 3.X
-fno-force-mem solved a lot of problems for my riva tnt.

Martijn Kruithof