> is egcs capable of compiling a working 2.0.32 kernel?
I compiled the 2.0.32 kernel I'm currently running on with a
snapshot of egcs prior to 1.0 release + pentium gcc patches.
$ uptime
11:44pm up 19 days, 4:43, 15 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.20
> Is there any speed difference?
Yes! Pgcc speeds up XEmacs very noticeably at -O6, I compiled the
kernel at a more modest optimization level (-O2), but everything
seems faster. I haven't built a linux kernel with plain egcs, but I
have a number of reports of XEmacs being faster when compiled with
egcs versus gcc.