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Re: GCC 1.25 fixed old X11 bug

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On Friday, August 5, 1988 at 1:23:31 PM UTC-7, Gene Spafford wrote:
> If you used gcc to compile the X11 release in time past, you
> noticed that some button-boxes (notably the ones in xmh)
> didn't hi-lite properly when selected.
> Well, gcc 1.25 no longer causes that problem to occur.
> I compiled the whole X11 distribution (modified with out
> speed-ups plus some small code changes to make gcc happy)
> with the options 
> -finline-functions -fcombine-regs -fomit-frame-pointer -O
> (plus, of course, -traditional), and the resulting code
> works 100% and is quite fast.
> Two files dumped core with an IOT trap during the rebuild, and
> those have been reported in the gcc bug list; compiling those
> files with sun cc -O works fine.
> Just thought you'd all like to know....
> 
> -- 
> Gene Spafford
> NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
> Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
> Internet: sp...@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
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