Re: gcc-3.1.1 issue

[Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 04:58:30PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:59:44PM +0100, Philippe Elbaz-Vincent wrote:
> > may be you can give more details (Linux/alpha, Linux/x86, etc..) ?
> > On Linux/x86 (march=pentium2,athlon-mp), kernel 2.4.18, gcc-3.1.1
> > endian.c compiles with just the warning and apparently gives the expected
> > result (=1) (also tested with gcc-3.2  20020809 (prerelease)).
> 
> My bad, I'm usually more specific.  It's Linux/i686.  I also forgot to
> mention that the assembler error only occurs at -O1 or higher.  Did
> you try it with optimization? 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Ph.
> > 
> > btw: I think the 3.1x serie will have a short live due to the imminent
> > release of the 3.2 which include the new c++ abi, not bin. compatible
> > with previous versions, but which should be widely supported (and
> > 'backuped') by the future Linux distro. just my 2 cent.
> 
> There will be no difference between 3.1.1 and 3.2 as far as C compiler
> goes.
> 
> Igor

Consider that case closed.  I built gcc-3.1.1 on Redhat, and the error
was on Mandrake - I guess some RPM incompatibility.  I should really
stick to just 1 distrib.

Igor