Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 7 Feb 1998 11:41:36 -0500 (EST) | | From | James Mastros <> | | Subject | Re: gcc-2.8.0 |
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On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 03:27:00PM -0700, Michael Driscoll wrote: > > Installed gcc-2.8.0 and libg++-2.8.0, and recompiled the kernel. > ... > > Did not notice any trouble until I tried using svgalib applications. > > squake, qwcl, zgv, etc. all screwed up the console in the same way > > (random lines etc all over the screen, nothing coherent at all). > > The console still responded to keyboard input but I couldn't figure out > > how to restore the console so I would reboot. > > The problem is in anything using routines from ioport.c . There has > been discussion about this lately, read some old posts. Ahh... now I think I see why I don't have this problem: I use -O16 -mpentium, not -O2 (hand-hacked makefiles -- in the quite obvious way).
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