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From: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Interested in work being done on Xenix 386 GCC or G++
Message-ID: <KAYVAN.89Aug6132334@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 89 20:23:37 GMT
Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Organization: Transact Software, Inc.
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I am finally starting to do some work on getting gcc (and hopefully g++)
working on my Xenix 386 machine.

The only stumbling block is that the compiler produces code that is in the
AT&T style assembler syntax. Xenix's 386 assembler, masm, can not handle this.
I have gotten a fair amount of interest in the past (and one offer from a
co-conspirator to work on this with me. Hi Mike!)

I'm interested in finding out about what work has been done on GCC on Xenix in
the following areas:

     1) Creating machine descriptions to generate masm code
     2) AT&T as syntax to masm syntax translators
     3) AT&T style assembler
     4) COFF encapsulation-type work for getting gas to generate usable
        object files.

My approach is to go ahead with plan #1 above, but I would be most interested
in hearing about any others.

			---Kayvan
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