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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: GNU CPP ported to MINIX-386 and other things
Keywords: GNU CPP MINIX-386
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.200332.12381@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 31 Dec 90 20:03:32 GMT
Organization: Dakota State University
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Last night I hacked the GNU C preprocessor out of GCC and changed it
to compile with Bruce's C compiler.  If anyone's interested, I could
post diffs or the whole thing.  I had been trying to use the Decus CPP
posted a while back, but it didn't appear to have the features that I
needed :-(.

Also, the bootblok.s that's in my copy of MINIX version 1.5 has very
poor support for booting off 3.5" drives.  It's supposed to support
booting off a 720K 3.5" drive, but it's hard coded to expect that
only IBM PS/2's have 3.5" drives; 1.44M drives are not supported.
I have hacked bootblok to (hopefully correctly) support both
720K and 1.44M 3.5" drives.  Again, if anyone's interested, I can
clean it up and ship it out.

Happy New Year!
(Isn't it time for the "yearly reflection on Minix" about now?)

Guy
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