Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!schwartz From: schwartz@cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: compiling X11R4 under AOS for mpel Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 90 07:30:54 GMT References: <1990Jan9.154135.13344@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Penn State University Computer Science Lines: 11 In article <1990Jan9.154135.13344@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu writes: >Can anyone (ibm?) recommend the proper compilers to use in compiling >the server directory for AOS/mpel? I tried a vanilla compile which does >everything as hc (2.1s) -O and the results seem less than wonderful -- >specifically, magic (6.0 beta) causes the server to go off into the trees >by trying to draw some scrollbar glyphs manually using XDrawPoint(). Try with gcc, if you have it. I don't have R4 in hand, yet, so I don't know if this will win, but hc2.1s definately generates bad code, so you probably can't do much worse. (Yes, the codegeneration bugs have been reported to IBM -- about three months ago.)