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authorkan <kan@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-22 07:00:45 +0000
committerkan <kan@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-22 07:00:45 +0000
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Add note about GCC -fno-pcc-struct-return being default again. The
breakage window was about 18 days long. Submitted by: juli Approved by: re (rwatson)
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@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
+20021222:
+ For a period after the GCC 3.2.1 import (from 12/04 to 12/22), GCC
+ used an incompatible form of ABI for returning structures and unions
+ which FreeBSD's GCC maintainers were not aware of relative to previous
+ versions of FreeBSD. We have gone back to the ABI for now, and any
+ code compiled which is required to interoperate with other code (not
+ built at the same time) returning structs or unions should be
+
20021216:
A name change in /etc/netconfig has been reverted to stay
compatible with with suns TIRPC and also with NetBSD. You need
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