Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: g++ 1.39 installation. help Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 14:20:35 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: erick.gac.edu In-reply-to: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu's message of 8 Mar 91 03:56:02 GMTLines: 38 In article cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: the following is in the README distributed with the g++-1.39.0.tar.Z: >*Very Important* [For non-GAS users]: If you do not use GAS, GNU C++ >may need to use its own crt0.c, borrowed and modified from GNU Emacs. >You should verify that the crt0.c provided is fed suitable definitions >for correct compilation. If you have GNU Emacs, and you are not >compiling to a SUN, consult your local GNU Emacs guru, to see what >sort of #defines are required for proper operation. Since the latest GAS distribution does not support the '040, obviously I will not be installing or using GAS. You might want to try it, anyhow. The '040 really isn't all that different from the '030 - for instance, not so different as an '030 compared to an '020 or an '020 compared to 68000/10/8. Unless you're using floating point (which I very much doubt a crt0.c file would use :-), there would probably be no problems at all with using gas, at least for a couple files. Then again, don't be so sure that /bin/as isn't gas. Though I can't check without an OD-capable system at hand, I believe that NeXT distributed as source with the other GNU source in 1.0. Thus, I would tend to believe that as is gas by another name. Try it! The main problems (of course) with using a non-NeXT gas center around generating the right .o format . . . important, if you wish to link with anything that's put out by NeXT, or don't want to have to atom everything you create, or don't want to have to port the gnu loader, too. Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."