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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: Re: Tektronix XD8810 and gcc
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Date: 13 Nov 90 16:50:17 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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Roy Kern writes:

	"Some engineers over at Tektronix mentioned to me that they had
	downloaded gcc (gnu c compiler) from Data General and were
	using it on their 88's.  Well I too have downloaded it from DG,
	but it doesn't like my stdlib.h file.  Is there anyone there at
	tek that uses gcc and can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what
	I haven't set up correctly?."

I'm the engineer that did this, and I discussed it with Roy by
telephone.  Briefly, I bypassed the Green Hills compiler entirely by
building DG's compiler on a 68k box running GCC-68k.  This created a
cross-compiler.  I ran the compiler source through the cross-compiler
to get assembly source, which I moved to an 88k system and built with
the standard Motorola assembler and loader.

As a result, I didn't have to deal with GH/GNU language
inconsistencies, and had no header file problems.

(All this software is long gone, so please don't ask me for a copy.
I no longer have an 88k system.)

Kudos to Michael Meissner (now at OSF) and Tom Wood at Data General,
who did a superlative job on this compiler, and who didn't even think
about stonewalling when a competitor asked for the source code.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]