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From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A.V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: gcc for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1939@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Dec 90 11:29:33 GMT
Reply-To: zlsiial@cms.mcc.ac.uk (A.V. Le Blanc)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester, UK
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I got the gcc from ocf.  It runs on some of our 386's and not
on others.  An irritating aspect is that the file gnucc.cfg
must be in your current directory when you compile, and that
the default location of the include files, \gnu\usr\include,
is not searched without a special option.  Also the SETUP.BAT
file sets up the wrong environment variables.  I could fix these
problems -- I have already done some of them -- but I cannot
recompile, for example, gcc.c or the extender xm (run386), since
these require tasm and some other C compiler.

1)  Has anyone rewritten the .ASM files as .s files so that
    gas can assemble them?
2)  Has anyone rewritten the gcc.c file so that gcc can compile
    itself?
3)  In cases in which gcc-compiled code does not require vast
    amounts of memory, can gcc produce an ordinary .exe file?
4)  What are the changes required to make ld work on other 
    machines?  This would be easier for me than transferring
    recompiled versions, especially since UUencoded files
    do not make it here uncorrupted.

				Yours,
				A. V. Le Blanc
				ZLSIIAL@UK.AC.MCC.CMS