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From: lalonde@torolab2.vnet.ibm.com (Glen Lalonde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: GCC and MacMinix
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Date: 15 Mar 91 14:33:22 GMT
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I pulled the binaries for gcc and related utilities off plains.nodak.edu
and yes they do work with MacMinix. MacMinix does use a special version
of crtso.o but this is only needed if you want to call the Mac system
routines. As for performance, this is what I get for dhrystones:
Ack compiler 360, c68 416, gcc low opt 520, gcc high opt 560.(Mac+)
If I remove the NOSTRUCTUREASSIGN(something like that) define in
dhrystones that numbers for gcc -O are about 700.
I was hoping that gcc -O would give me much better numbers that that, are
these numbers typical for gcc -O in terms of the % speedup given at -O?

I guess the only things one has to look out for when using
gcc -mshort is sizeof, change sizeof() to (int)sizeof() and the
use of setjmp/longjmp. Possibly read-only strings. Is this correct?

Many thanks to Andrew J Michael for doing the port.