On 02-Mar-01 Marc W wrote:
> Subject: Re:Compiling FreeBSD kernel with Sun's cc
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> i may be wrong on this, but i believe that the reason that freebsd
> has its 'own' version of gcc is to support some things in the kernel.
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> thus, in addition to being mildly psychotic (;-)), it seems
> unlikely that this would work ...
Actually, the only customizations I'm aware of are -fformat-extensions which
teaches gcc about the extended printf syntax in the kernel so it can give more
intelligent printf argument warnings. It's not needed and is only there to
shut up annoying warnings and get a little extra sanity checking from the
compiler.
> marc.
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