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Re: debug evaluator is faster than regular one?
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: debug evaluator is faster than regular one?
- From: Ian Grant <Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:46:35 +0100
- cc: Ian Grant <Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>, Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
I once had terrible trouble getting guile to run when I used gcc on the SGI.
But it could've been a buggy gcc setup: I never really got to the bottom of
it: I should try again now that I'm somewhere with better set-up SGIs.
> Ian> I don't know. But sometimes there are issues with calling
> Ian> conventions (passing structs by value and what-not) and people
> Ian> need to use the native compiler because they're linking with code
> Ian> that was compiled with the native compiler. I think instances
> Ian> like this are rare, but they happen.
>
> This used to happen with gcc 1 running on Sparc systems.
> Do you know of other cases where it happens?
>
> Tom
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