Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!zs01+ From: zs01+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Zalman Stern) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Dec 3100 woes Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 90 01:46:44 GMT References: <9008041441.AA21614@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 sean@dsl.pitt.edu (Sean McLinden) writes: > [...] > Personally, I wish that the distribution of a C library for Andrew > on the MIPS had been negotiated with DEC upfront. As I understand > it, ITC has a copy, internally, but I'm not sure what, if any, > are the restrictions on their redistribution. > > Sean The ITC does not have a copy of this code, Academic Computing does. I suppose the license covers all of CMU but we (the ITC) did not compile the -G 0 libraries and have no interest in doing so. (I doubt any ITC employee has compiled ATK on a DECstation since late last year.) The ITC has already been extremely generous in "donating" my time to getting ATK running on the DECstation. When I originally volunteered to do the port I figured it would be easy (and I'd get a DECstation in my office). But noooooo... It turned out to be two orders of magnitude more difficult than I expected. Most of the difficulty was do the the -G 0 libraries, but MIPS' very own symbol table format didn't help either. (In all fairness the format is pretty good but figuring it out sans documentation was a pain in the ass.) This is an unofficial position of course. Tom can comment if he feels it necessary. Sincerely, Zalman Stern | Internet: zs01+@andrew.cmu.edu | Usenet: I'm soooo confused... Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 *** Friends don't let friends program in C++ ***