FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 2 09:07:25 PST 2003


On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:44:39PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Most of the savings from stripping commits is from removing verbose compiler
> > id "GCC: (GNU) 3.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20021119 (release)".
...
> David, can we get rid of the .comment section for the normal
> builds too, or at least not put these long GCC strings into?

"GCC: (GNU) 3.2.1" is the version string that the FSF STRONGLY wants to
remain.  They also strongly push us to add to that string so it is clear
this compiler is a derivative.  Bug reports are also useless with "3.2.1"
and "20021119".


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