From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Mar 18 19:53:40 2004 Subject: Re: [MiNT] Shared libs without MMU resources From: Petr Stehlik To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <200403181954.34300.jvalant@atari.org> References: <405868D5.4060101@imperia.net> <1079627332.24920.37.camel@joy.sophics> <200403181954.34300.jvalant@atari.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Message-Id: <1079635743.1991.3.camel@joy.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:49:03 +0100 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ns1.avonet.cz id TAA24166 Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joy@sophics.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i2IIrcU04785 V Čt, 18. 03. 2004 v 19:54, Janez Valant píše: > > 1) are you able to run your favourite software with MMU enabled? > > 2) do you run with MMU enabled all the time? > > Since u ask: No and No. The poll should be on a web somewhere so that everybody could click there. But good to know first No/No answer. > > I don't think we'd have to convince the gcc maintainers since Frank > > believes we should stay with GCC 2.95.x forever. > > One though: If Franks work is such a prob (im GLAD he work on MiNT) why not > start own branch of distribution, like Linux has them. U will be able to do > whatewer changes u want? I never said Frank would be a prob. He has been and still is doing a tremendous job on maintaining FreeMiNT. But recently we've had a discussion about GCC 3.x in this list and Frank convinced us easily that upgrading to GCC 3.x would be so much work and pain that it doesn't pay off. So I thought I'd mention it here so that the GCC patch for -mbaserel wouldn't look so unreal. Petr