Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:23:56 11/19/97
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On November 19, 1997 at 07:43:09, Peter Herttrich wrote: >Hi Bob, thanks for the new program. >I took the source and compiled it with the normal 2.7.2 gcc >and with the pentium-optimized version. >speed-difference is abt 18%. >In the Makefile I saw, your default is set to ELF. >So you don't support the a.out anymore? >Doesen't matter, the ELF-executable is fast enough. >Was only a question. >Next weekend I will test the 14.0 :-) >My wife told to me, I should marry my chessmachine :-( >Some one more here with such problems? :-)) > >Cheerio >Peter I didn't like a.out, because it is a pain in a** to debug on Linux, since everything is pretty much ELF now. I stuck with a.out for playing chess, and would recompile in ELF format for debugging with gdb. With the latest pgcc compiler snapshot that I am using, ELF is actually slightly faster than the best a.out I could do, so I completely quit using a.out at all, since I can now debug what I actually run, which is more convenient. Nothing worse than to run for a week, get a core file, and not be able to get the debugger to look at it. Then I'd recompile in ELF, run for a week (10% slower) and not get a core file. :)
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