Re: Building v1.6

[Pat Villani <patv@unx.dec.com> writes:]

>> For instance, does your CPU have a floating
>> point unit?
>Bingo! The laptop I'm using is an old NCR 3150 with _no_ co-processor.
>I've been using it for so long I forgot that it was just an old 486SX25.
>Since the kernel doesn't seem to require fp, why the limitation starting
>with 1.6. Is it the tools?

GCC has this really lame register allocation algorithm which uses, of all
things, floating point. djgpp of old, as well as the GCC 1.X port to VSTa,
had a hack to work around it. With the conversion to 2.X GCC, I stopped
hacking up the source. If somebody's game to hunt down this stuff and fix
it again, I'd be happy to fold it back in.

                                                        Andy
Received on Tue Oct 21 07:15:49 1997