Pyramid GCC port

[Karl Kleinpaste]

I have received and minimally tested a port of GCC to the Pyramid
which was done by Jonathan Stone <jonathan at comp.vuw.ac.nz>.  He sent
it to me and asked that I make it available for copying.  You can pick
it up via ftp from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.60] in
pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-pyr.tar.Z; or via UUCP from osu-cis as
~/gnu/gcc/gcc-pyr.tar.Z.  The file is 43158 bytes long and contains:

rw-r--r--482/10   1795 Jun 22 09:49 1989 gcc-pyr/README
r--r--r--482/10   3871 May 28 22:59 1989 gcc-pyr/out-pyr.c
r--r--r--482/10  34090 May 28 22:59 1989 gcc-pyr/pyr.md
rw-r--r--482/10    704 May 28 22:56 1989 gcc-pyr/real.h.cdif
rw-r--r--482/10   6648 May 28 22:55 1989 gcc-pyr/stmt.c.cdif
r--r--r--482/10  47645 May 28 22:59 1989 gcc-pyr/tm-pyr.h
rw-r--r--482/10    815 May 28 23:38 1989 gcc-pyr/va-pyr.h
rw-r--r--482/10    536 May 28 22:56 1989 gcc-pyr/varargs.h.cdif
r--r--r--482/10   1550 May 28 22:59 1989 gcc-pyr/xm-pyr.h

In order to build GCC successfully, you'll need to be running a
Pyramid configured with rather a lot of swap space.  Both of my OSx4.4
Pyrs have only a single `b' swap partition; when trying to build
stage2, with the machine otherwise essentially idle and about 20Mbytes
of VM space available (as reported by pstat -s), compilation of
several files still failed - GCC is an alarmingly memory-hoggish
compiler.  I had to revert to one of my OSx4.0 systems which has about
115Mbytes of swap configured.  This was on a 98x, and the resource
statistics reported by csh at the completion of the 2nd and 3rd stage
build procedures were:

2934.2u 965.6s 3:24:33 31% 109+669k 6561+7700io 5858pf+1w
2417.9u 902.1s 3:46:23 24% 107+136k 6816+7645io 8678pf+0w

I could only successfully get through the 1st stage on our 9825 due to
the swap limitation, but even so, its stats were:

335.1u 62.7s 10:02 66% 46+305k 1556+1698io 575pf+0w

(Realize also that the 9825 is relatively "quiet" compared to our
overworked 98x...for now.)  Plan on a very long lunch when you start
building.

--Karl