Subject: re: NetBSD-current on sparc64 comments
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/28/2001 15:35:24
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, matthew green wrote:
>
> > - The only real issue I've hit is that there seems to be
> > a problem compiling C++. A 'hello world' program will
> > fail at runtime with:
> > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.4: Undefined symbol "" (reloc type = 54, symnum = 18)
> > gcc -v reports 2.95.3. Was this toolchain used to build
> > the snapshot? (ie: groff)
> >
> > groff doesn't use libstdc++, but this is basically a known issue. C++
> > in general doesn't work on sparc64 though some applications that only
> > use a small subset of C++ (like groff) will work just ine.
>
> IS the new toolchain liable to affect this?
>
> sparc64 & C++ probably won't be fixed until post GCC 3.0. i don't know.
>
OK thanks.
> Many thanks - my free memory appears to be usefully caching files
> now :) Is there any reason we do not autosize NVNODE more usefully
> based on the total memory?
>
>
> one assumes that chuq will deal with the too-small vnode issue sometime,
> it was only "recently" (3 months ago?) posted about on tech-kern.
Is there an open PR?
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