Fed up with Gnu CC

[Brant Cheikes]

OK, folks, I've diddled unsuccessfully with GCC as much as I intend to
for the near term.  I tried compiling Gnu Emacs 18.52 with GCC 1.26
(Alex Crain's binaries), GCC 1.30, and GCC 1.31, always using gcc with
the -O flag.  In all cases the resulting executables did not work
properly, usually bombing during startup, with a Bus Error or Memory
Fault.  My GCC 1.31 was initially compiled with GCC 1.26, and was able
to successfully compile itself.

I have gotten GCC to (apparently) successfully compile some other
programs, including bison and gnuchess.  Yet it's so inconsistent that
I don't trust it.  Unless someone can show me some mistake I made, I
would recommend that those without the time or ability to become
intimately familiar with GCC's innards (and thus help get it working)
just leave it alone.
-- 
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