Re: ld assertion failures building NetBSD-VAX with GCC 4.5

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

> I recently booted up my VS4000/90 to play with NetBSD. The CPU seems a
> bit faster than my Amiga 3000 with WarpEngine 40MHz 68040) and it has
> the benefit that it can do a complete build without failing, while my
> Amiga has some intermittent RAM or bus corruption that causes random
> GCC build failures every few days (especially frustrating when it
> takes 4-5 hours for an incremental build to proceed to the point where
> the previous build crashed). The SCSI controller is slower than the
> Amiga (it appears to be limited to 6.25MB/s transfers) and the
> Ethernet seems a bit slower as well, but the VS4000 is quite solid.

I've noticed that the VAXstation 4000/60 was around the speed of an m68040 
system and that while the 4000/90a was noticeably faster than an m68040, 
it wasn't quite as fast as an m68060. It's still a pretty impressive 
machine considering its age.

Has there been any progress with making gcc 4.5.x happier with VAX?

John