Re: [Gcl-devel] cmpmain.lsp

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm.
> 
> I take your points about speed and compiler dependencies.
> 
> I accidentally took part of this strand of discussion off the mailing list -
> see the separate suggestion from Greg there which uses just gcc.
> 
> As I have never used Common Lisp keywords before I might use this as a
> learning exercise after I've dealt with the Mingw32 BFD and ANSI problems.
> (Or when I need a break!)
> 
> Do many GCL platforms use a C compiler other than gcc?
> 

To my current knowledge, only solaris.  There was some talk of a VMS
port at one point too.

Take care,

> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Camm Maguire" <address@hidden>
> To: "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 7:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] cmpmain.lsp
> 
> 
> > Greetings!  OK  I'm not sure about the order of your messages, so
> > please bear with me.
> >
> > 1) It would appear that -g is useful for viewing the disassembly
> >    output, if one is not comfortable with the assembly instructions
> >    themselves :-).  But it does slow down the compiler, I believe.
> >    gcc can do some optimization with -g, which is quite unusual for
> >    compilers to my understanding.
> >
> > 2) I think we need an option/keywork to disassemble.  Anyone want to
> >    propose a patch?
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > > Greetings, and thanks for your commit here!
> > >
> > > No worries - see other message.
> > >
> > > >   I turned off the
> > > > :c-debug in disassemble by default, as most people (I think) use this
> > > > in code profiling and want to see optimized output.
> > >
> > > I thought that c-debug just passed "-g" to the compiler, and that the
> debug
> > > info was entirely separate to the executable object code ie that
> using -g in
> > > conjunction with -O2 made no difference to the final optimised
> executable
> > > code itself?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Mike Thomas.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Camm Maguire      address@hidden
> > ==========================================================================
> > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."  --  Baha'u'llah
> >
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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