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From: ssr@taylor.Princeton.EDU (Steve S. Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.mips
Subject: Porting cfront to MIPS
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Date: 23 Aug 90 16:24:11 GMT
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Howdy netters,

I just got at&t's cfront 2.1 and I'm working on porting it to a MIPS
machine.  (That's one of the machines directly from MIPS Inc, not a DEC
or an SGI.)  I'm using a Sun 3 for the host machine.

I've followed the manual as closely and I can, and tried every
permutation where there's an ambiguity, but it doesn't seem to work.
I can get it to compile (in one combination) but it dies with an
internal compiler error when it tries to compile the libraries.

What I've done is to first get a version working on the Sun 3.  This
is a `make world' type operation.  Very smooth.

Then I configure the files in a clean copy of the source for a System
V machine, use the sun to make the scratch files (with the magic of
NFS) and compile them on the MIPS.  It builds a cfront, but when I try
to use it I get an internal compiler error.

If someone out there could give me a hint about making this thing go
on something besides a 3B2 or a SUN, I'd really appreciate it.

Steve Roy
ssr@acm.princeton.edu