compiling gcc-1.31

[Brant Cheikes]

In article <796 at thor.stolaf.edu> mike at wheaties.ai.mit.edu writes:
>I haven't gotten around to testing the thing much, but -O and -g both
>seem to work [...]
>I will also use it to compile Emacs, TeX, and Metafont.

The gcc-1.31 that I'm running successfully compiled the latest
web2c/TeX/LaTeX available from ics.uci.edu.  I needed the -traditional
and -writable-strings options on web2c and tangle, but the actual
web2c-generated C source compiled fine with just -O.  The result
passed the trip test, and was 10K smaller than the pcc-produced
version.  Speed-up of about 10-15% on compiling a 45-page document.

I tried building Gnu Emacs 18.52 using every combination of -O,
-traditional, and -writable-strings, with no luck.  An executable was
created that consistently core-dumped while loading rmail.  I haven't
tried to track the problem down.

I will be putting the binaries in the anonymous Internet FTP area on
linc.cis.upenn.edu within a few days.
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
brant at manta.pha.pa.us, brant at linc.cis.upenn.edu, bpa!manta!brant