gcc-3.2.3, windows98, cygwin, no luck

[Ed Sutter]

Along these lines, I would be interested to know why there needs
to be an "rtems-specific" compiler, instead of just generic GNU.
Ed

Phil Torre wrote:
> 
> Joel, do you know what our chances would be of getting 4.6.0pre4 to
> build with a Cygwin-hosted gcc-2.95.3 (since gcc-2/cygwin/windows98
> actually seems to work)?
> 
> -Phil
> 
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:01:35AM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > Phil Torre wrote:
> >
> > >As a follow-up to my earlier message:
> > >
> > >I've now got everything working except powerpc-rtems-gcc.  As a sanity
> > >check, I grabbed the pre-built binaries off of ftp.oarcorp.com to
> > >try.  On a windows98 box, they fail exactly as the ones I built did.
> > >
> > >On a C file that does nothing but multiply two ints together, compile
> > >only, no linking, I get an ICE in fold-const.c in size_binop().
> > >The same thing running on a windows2000 box does not exhibit the error.
> > >
> > >Has anyone out there run into this, or do we have the last developers
> > >on Earth who are using windows98?  :)
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >-Phil
> > >
> > >
> > You are not the last person using Win98 in the RTEMS world but my Win98
> > machine
> > is used almost solely by my kids these days. :)  I am on a WinME laptop
> > right now
> > and Cygwin isn't the most stable on here either.
> >
> > Seriously, my experience has been that Cygwin+Win98 just isn't as stable
> as
> > the same Cygwin on NT, 2000, or XP.
> >
> > --joel
> 
>