GCC on System V/AT 2.3.0-L
John Gilmore
gnu at hoptoad.uucp
Fri Mar 25 22:02:33 AEST 1988
wtr at moss.ATT.COM wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has managed to port the
> Gnu C Compiler (GCC) over to microport 2.3?
There is basically no chance that GCC will run native on a 16-bit
machine. It likes large, contiguous data structures, which Intel
machines hate. At least once the Microsoft/AT&T/Interactive
application binary standard for 8086 is finalized and adopted (maybe a
few years from now, when nobody will care any more), you'll be able to
buy Microsoft's MSC for Xenix and run it on Microport's Unix.
However, on the gcc front, I heard that someone is doing a 386 port,
and it should be possible to use that on microport unix on a 386 box.
It should be easy to bring up (once the 386 code generator is released)
if either:
* your current compiler can handle gcc's source (sounds like
microport's is unlikely to),
or * you have a real working Unix box, that gcc runs on, handy.
You can cross-compile to 386 assembler source, move that
to the 386 box, and assemble and link it there. Then use that
binary to recompile its own sources. Once you've bootstrapped,
you *have* a compiler that can handle gcc...
Watch comp.emacs, or get on the info-gcc mailing list by sending mail
to gnu at prep.ai.mit.edu, to find out when the 386 gcc comes out.
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