[m-dev.] TODO list for 0.12 release

Peter Hawkins peter at hawkins.emu.id.au
Fri Jul 8 17:26:16 AEST 2005


Julien Fischer wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Peter Hawkins wrote:
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>>Incidentally, better gcc 4.0 support probably needs to be on the to-do
>>list, since it's now the default compiler on several linux
>>distributions. I suspect using hlc.gc may be the best way to achieve
>>this since gcc 4.0's optimizer appears to break the asm_fast grades.
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>Unfortunately gcc 4.0's optimizer also breaks things in the hlc grades
>(although not to the same extent as asm_fast grades).
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Notwithstanding compiler bugs, in general the hlc.gc grades are more 
standards-compliant C, so I think they should be the default. Clearly 
you're not trying to debug or profile the bootstrap compiler, so the 
lack of debugging and profiling support probably doesn't matter much.

=)
Peter
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