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From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
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Subject: Re: gcc for MS-DOS
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Date: 5 Dec 90 16:11:34 GMT
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I have ftp'ed and download the GCC package; the loader doesn't work on
my machine (386SX Neat Chipset, VIP MB, with DOS 4.01) I have heard
from one  person who got it to compile a 'hello world' program.

The loader refuses to write the output file.  It creates it OK, but it
bombs out of one of the other operations in the 'write_file' function
-- fstat'ing it to get its permission bits, and chmod'ing it to make
it executable.  It would be very simple to fix this, since neither
operation has any relevance to DOS, but since the loader is broken, I
can't use it to load the fixed version ;-(.

I suspect it is a difference in DOS 3.X versus DOS 4.01 file semantics
-- since I'm getting ENOENT on an operation when the file exists,
apparently the directory entry isn't written out until the file is
closed.

If anyone has GCC working (in particular ld!!!) please mail to me.
Supposedly Uchida has a new version coming out in a few weeks, so hold
off posting!

--
             Kent Williams --- williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu 
"'Is this heaven?' --- 'No, this is Iowa'" - from the movie "Field of Dreams"
"This isn't heaven, ... this is Cleveland" - Harry Allard, in "The Stupids Die"