From 47e5e405b19142b28c91dfe9bbd44518aee5e3fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 00:02:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Modified release note: Note code generation problems with the base system GCC using -march=pentium4, and the local workaround in our Makefile infrastructure. Approved by: re (implicitly) --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 14 +++++++++++++- .../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index ff8d9572c7f..1d28477ea9f 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -897,7 +897,19 @@ 3.41. &merged; GCC has been updated to - 3.2.2 (release version). + 3.2.2 (release version). + + + GCC is known to produce + broken code with the option + set. As a workaround to avoid this problem, setting the + CPUTYPE=p4 Makefile variable (for example, in + &man.make.conf.5;) enables GCC's + option instead. This + situation is expected to be resolved when GCC 3.3 is + imported. + + The gdtoa library, for conversions between strings and floating point, has been imported. These sources diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index ff8d9572c7f..1d28477ea9f 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -897,7 +897,19 @@ 3.41. &merged; GCC has been updated to - 3.2.2 (release version). + 3.2.2 (release version). + + + GCC is known to produce + broken code with the option + set. As a workaround to avoid this problem, setting the + CPUTYPE=p4 Makefile variable (for example, in + &man.make.conf.5;) enables GCC's + option instead. This + situation is expected to be resolved when GCC 3.3 is + imported. + + The gdtoa library, for conversions between strings and floating point, has been imported. These sources