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Re: building a mipsel-linux cross-compiler



On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Steve Langasek wrote:

> gcc 3.0 is, generally, better than gcc 2.95.4.  I know one reason why 
> woody is shipping with 2.95 as the default on all architectures that 
> support it is because switching to 3.0 will require a recompile of all 
> C++ software in the distribution; but if you're just compiling C code, I
> can't see any reason that gcc 3.0 wouldn't be sufficient for your own
> use.  It's certainly the compiler that will likely see the most bugfixes.

gcc-3.0 is crap. it misscompiles mipslinux kernel, compiles slowly and
generates slow code. do not use it and protect yourself from pain ;-)
i didn't believe to Ralf and tried myself. bad, bad... go for egcs-1.1.2
gcc-3.0.3 is a little bit better, but egcs-1.1.2 still rulez.

regards,
ladis



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