GNU: Old CPUs and GCC, cps soup, and Unifont 15.0.02
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gcc now works with older CPUs
Three people reported that when they tried to compile with gcc, they got "illegal instruction". So, have to do something about it.
No problem for me; I compile on computers with Intel i3 and Ryzen 5 CPU. Today booted up Easy on a much older computer, with an earlier-gen i5 CPU, with the devx SFS loaded, when ran "gcc --help" got that "illegal instruction". Hmmm. -
Andy Wingo: approaching cps soup
Good evening, hackers. Today's missive is more of a massive, in the sense that it's another presentation transcript-alike; these things always translate to many vertical pixels.
In my defense, I hardly ever give a presentation twice, so not only do I miss out on the usual per-presentation cost amortization and on the incremental improvements of repetition, the more dire error is that whatever message I might have can only ever reach a subset of those that it might interest; here at least I can be more or less sure that if the presentation would interest someone, that they will find it.
So for the time being I will try to share presentations here, in the spirit of, well, why the hell not.
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unifont @ Savannah: Unifont 15.0.02 Released
20 May 2023 Unifont 15.0.02 is now available. This is a minor release, but its the last expected version to build TrueType fonts by default. Future releases will only build their OpenType equivalents. This version also adds Doxygen HTML and LaTeX-generated PDF documentation, in the "doxygen" top-level directory. Also, by request, the CJK double-width characters in the U+FF00..U+FFEF range have been revised to non-boldface variants. Download this release from GNU server mirrors at: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/unifont/unifont-15.0.02/ or if that fails, https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-15.0.02/ or, as a last resort, ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unifont/unifont-15.0.02/ These files are also available on the unifoundry.com website: https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-15.0.02/ Font files are in the subdirectory https://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-15.0.02/font-builds/ A more detailed description of font changes is available at https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html and of utility program changes at http://unifoundry.com/unifont/unifont-utilities.html