Re: Alpha AXP

Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 08:00:25 +0100


[Alpha 233]
> 1. How come it is slower than my old 486 DX 33 (is it suposed to be soooo
> slooow)?

No. I would expect it to be in the range of a Pentium 100. How did
you measure?

> 2. I am getting whole bunch of following warrning messages while compiling
> kernels, Is there a way to make a clean kernel compile on alpha?
>
> (__r16 might be used un initialized in this function)

What are the specific files you get the errors for, and what is the
specific message? In general, 'might be used uninitialized' is often
a gcc problem: gcc is not smart enough to understand that there is
no way that it is used uninitialized. If that turns out to be the case,
you should look into fixing gcc rather than than fixing the kernel.

Regards,
Martin