Re: [lto][RFC] Do not emit hybrid object files

2008-10-19 Thread Mark Mitchell
David Edelsohn wrote: >>> I actually think that the hybrid files should be the default. If you >>> are willing to make invasive changes to your build environment to >>> support two files, then you should be willing to add extra options to >>> support that. > IBM XLC whole program IPA mode defaul

Re: thread build on solaris

2008-10-19 Thread Eric Botcazou
> This is having the unfortunate side effect that a lot of packages that > used to compile perfectly fine with gcc-3 are no longer doing so with > gcc-4. The major Linux distributions use GCC 4.x so this should be doable. > Here's another example I'm finding: > > Constructs of the form > > extern

Re: thread build on solaris

2008-10-19 Thread Edward Peschko
Eric, I don't want to be a hair-splitter, but I do think this message does belong in gcc - it's a question of functionality, and how easy to use gcc is. I am trying to move to gcc-4 for its technical improvements, but I'm finding that it seems to be far less forgiving than gcc-3. This is having

Re: [PATCH]: GMP/MPFR in-tree build instructions [Was: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)]

2008-10-19 Thread Tobias Schlüter
Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Tobias Schlüter wrote: I'll take care of this, provided Gerald approves the change. Gerald, if you think that copyright is a problem, I'll gladly rephrase it. Thanks for the change, it looks like a good one. You may want to make one or the other adj

Re: [PATCH]: GMP/MPFR in-tree build instructions [Was: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)]

2008-10-19 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Tobias Schlüter wrote: > I'll take care of this, provided Gerald approves the change. Gerald, if > you think that copyright is a problem, I'll gladly rephrase it. Thanks for the change, it looks like a good one. You may want to make one or the other adjustment for extra saf

Re: thread build on solaris

2008-10-19 Thread Jonathan Wakely
2008/10/19 Edward Peschko: > > That worked (thanks) but exactly why did it work? Shouldn't gcc be > smart enough to realize that it is working either with a c++ file or > linking to a c++ library? http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.2/gcc/Invoking-G_002b_002b.html "g++ ... automatically specifi

out of date docs? (alpha/64bit vs. 32bit vs. cross)

2008-10-19 Thread Jay
http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#alpha-dec-osf "Note that since the Alpha is a 64-bit architecture, cross-compilers from 32-bit machines will not generate code as efficient as that generated when the compiler is running on a 64-bit machine because many optimizations that depend on bein