Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!mips!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: gcc for MS-DOS Message-ID: <1990Dec7.215136.12684@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 7 Dec 90 21:51:36 GMT References: <2985@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Dec5.001636.920@sj.ate.slb.com> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA. Lines: 31 In article garym@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Gary Murphy) writes: > >>>>>> On 5 Dec 90 00:16:36 GMT, grimesg@sj.ate.slb.com (George Grimes) said: > > >GG> Bill, >GG> Count this as one vote for posting gcc for MS-DOS. I'd like to see it and >GG> the fact that it requres a '386 is a reasonable contraint. > >GG> Thanks, >GG> George > > >This is the first I've heard of this constraint. Is there no chance >of building and/or running gcc on a 286 machine? Are there any other >major constraints? > Gcc for MSDOS is a port of the famous gcc compiler for UNIX machines. This is a true 32 bit compiler, and I believe that the intent is a straight port (as much as possible) to remain a 32 bit compiler running only on 32 bit machines in protected mode, generating programs for same. A port to a 16 bit machine like an 80286 would be a major undertaking, and given that there are plenty of reasonably good MSDOS compilers out there (Borland, Zortech, MicroSoft, etc, etc), it wouldn't be very interesting. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254