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From: vasta@apollo.HP.COM (John Vasta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: gcc for Apollo using COFF patches -help needed
Keywords: gcc coff sr10.1 apollo
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Date: 6 Dec 90 23:45:00 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.152729@ap.co.umist.ac.uk> rn@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter) writes:
>Has anyone managed to get a version of gcc to compile on Apollos (specifically
>dn3000's and dn4000's @ sr10.1 in my case) with the COFF patches to gcc and
>gas (etc) on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu in order to produce dbx output? I get as
>far as compiling gnulib2 (with the patched assembler) when it produces errors
>such as:
>
>_adddi3
>/usr/tmp/cca07838.s:7:"instruction/operands mismatch" 
>    -- Statement 'link a6,#-48' ignored

I've got Mike Bloom's COFF/DBX patches worked into gas-1.36, gas-1.37, and the
latest test release of gcc here (on it's way to gcc-1.38). I did have to make
some changes to them, and yes, you have to come up with a whole new tm-apollo68.h
file. I've been planning to release all this stuff when gcc-1.38 is released,
which seems to be taking some time (it appears that it's getting close now).
I don't have gdb running yet, but hope to in the near future.

>-With my previous version of gas (using John Vasta's patches) I get a gnulib
>archive with ./gcc producing 'sun old impure executables (68020)' mixed with
>the COFF apollo-cc ones :^(

Gee, I don't even know what this means.

>I suspect that it's something in config/tm-apollo68.h that is fouling things
>up but I've been staring at this for so long now I need a prod in the right
>direction...

Sorry I can't give you any specific help, and I'm not prepared to release
my stuff yet, but there is a lot of work to do to get the COFF/DBX stuff in.

John Vasta                Hewlett-Packard Apollo Systems Division
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