386/376 Development Tools

[Tom McBeath]

Help, Please!

We bought the DOS-based Intel tools to develop "C" based embedded PROM systems
for the 376/386 and now we need something that works.

We are looking at Metaware High C, the PharLap Assembler/Linker and the PharLap
debugger.  Does anyone have any experience with this setup, or any other setup
which would allow us to program 376/386 systems?  We would like to hear from
you.

Also, if anyone knows of any Unix Based tools to do the same job (especially
those with freely available source), then we would REALLY like to hear.  Is
the GNU compiler suitable for this type of task?

The problems we are having with the Intel tools fall into the following
catagories:

1: The Compiler does not separate initialised and uninitialised data (Data and
   BSS).

2: The compiler is full of annoying deficiencies when compared with the
   standard Unix compiler.

3: DB386 will only work for very small programs.

Please mail responses directly to trm at spider.co.uk.

Thanks in advance,

Tom McBeath
Software Development Manager
Spider systems