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From: brian@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Brian Cuthie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Cross Compilers for Mac ?
Message-ID: <5063@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Date: 19 Feb 91 02:26:14 GMT
References: <Le9eX3w163w@ersys.uucp>
Organization: Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Academic Computing Services
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In article <Le9eX3w163w@ersys.uucp> ersys!crs@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Chris Gregors) writes:
>
>        Our group is preparing doing some realtime embedded development
>using a 680x0 target. Since we have a lot of Mac's around, we are
>interested in 'C' cross compilers for the Mac. There seems to be a
>shortage of cross compilers available for the Mac so I was wondering if
>anyone has any info/opinions regarding cross development using 'C' and
>the Mac. 
...
>Chris Gregors
>Nova Corporation of Alberta


Why do you need a cross compiler.  If you are running on a Mac then you
already have a choice of decent 68K compilers.  Probably the best choice,
for lot's of reasons including that you can get the source to the linker,
is gnu c.

With a little bit of work and the right compiler/linker options, you should
be able to get code for just about any embeded 68K target.  Of course
source level debugging isn't going to be easy :-)

-brian