Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!ames!lll-winken!uunet!cme!anderson
From: anderson@cme.nbs.gov (William E. Anderson)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: gcc-1.35 and X11
Message-ID: <1239@sparky.cme.nbs.gov>
Date: 2 Jun 89 00:21:35 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Lines: 19

>>From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU

>>The X server on the sun should build fine with GCC 1.35; rms gave me a 
>>preliminary version (1.34.92) to test before he shipped 1.35.  I compiled
>>our entire core sources (R3++) -O -g -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return
>>and it ran without trouble.  We are now regularly building the X server
>>with GCC (as it nearly doubles the speed in monochrome) so you should 
>>expect fewer troubles with the next release of X (we just need to keep
>>making sure it compiles with the sun compiler as well.  Sigh).

I just tried to build X11 using gcc as described above on a Sun 3/280
running SunOs 4.0.1.  There were numerous problems ranging from
duplicate typedefs to parsing errors.  I had no trouble with cc.
Could somebody who has made this work send me their Sun.macros file
and any other hints.

William E. Anderson
NIST
anderson@ceee.nist.gov