From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: what went wrong?
19 May 1997 13:35:54 -0700
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Stephen Crowley wrote:
> 
> Just wondering but what did you guys do to screw up b18 so bad? The
> configure scripts that worked perfeclty with 17.1 wont work at all with
> b18, sometimes the script is supposed to wait for use input but it just
> keeps going and then it wont find files it creates in the /tmp dir, e.g. it
> creates a temp file to pass to gcc but gcc cant find the file, and also it
> goes into infinite recursion for some reason, keeps saying stack error or
> something.

I haven't seen problems like this when I've run configure scripts
using b18.  It is true that if you run out of stack space, gcc becomes
rather unhappy.  :-(

I also haven't seen a slowing in starting programs or in compiling
executables.  In fact, I see a speed-up in compile times over
beta 17...

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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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