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From: dcourte@eve.wright.edu (Dale Emery Courte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: G++ under Umax 4.2
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Date: 27 Nov 89 21:58:15 GMT
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Reply-To: dcourte@eve.UUCP (Dale Emery Courte)
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I am attempting to put GNU c++ (g++) up on our Multimax here, and have
run into a snag. While compiling the file newld.c (g++-1.36) or ld.c
(g++-1.34) I get numerous errors having to do with COFF format. It seems
the header files, being a.out.h and all that it includes, don't define
an important struct definition, called 'exec'. Also, due to the #if's
in a.out.h and the fact that n16 is defined as 1 on the Mutimax, a
number of referenced constants (N_TEXT, N_BSS, ...) are not #defined.
The way a.out.h is defined under Umax 4.2 is quite different than on
SUN's and Ultrix VAXes I have access to, while the SUN-OS and Ultrix
versions seem quite similar to each other. Is Encore's a.out.h
'nonstandard' in some sense? I'm just curious here, I know next to
nothing about COFF files.

I saw some postings about g++ and libg++ a while back, but had not yet
encountered this problem and was busy with other things. If this problem
was addressed, could someone please send me a summary?

If anyone knows, please tell me what I might be doing wrong. I assume
g++ will compile on the Multimax, as there is an encore config option
which is specifically for BSD and not Umax V.

Thank You.

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