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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: GCC and RCS binaries
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.220619.3706@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 22:06:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.135146.1311@bnr.ca> <7056@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <7056@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>janick@bnr.ca writes:
>>   I would like to know if there is an ftp site that has the binaries for
>>GCC and RCS for MS-DOS ???
>
>If anyone requests it, I'll upload my modified version of RCS for DOS and
>make it available on spdcc.com.  I added support for Novell usernames,
>and fixed some of the filenaming logic.
>
>RCS for DOS is currently in a state of flux.  Frank Whaley (few@gupta.com)
>is currently in charge of the revisions, and has said the filenaming logic
>has been ripped out and will be completely changed for version 5.6 (to be
>made available in a number of weeks).  Interested parties should inquire
>with Frank.
>
>As for GCC, there isn't any such beast for DOS.  To bring up such a thing
>would require a DOS extender, because GCC simply requires more memory
>than 640K.  And a DOS extender is time-consuming to produce.  Bringing
>GCC up against a proprietary extender (Zortech, Phar Lapp, et al) defeats
>the whole purpose of having a public-domain compiler, so no one's likely
>to do it until a low-cost extender becomes widespread.  (If GCC is ever
>brought up under MS-DOS, I suspect it would be a 386-native version
>requiring a 386 processor.)  Don't bug the Free Software Foundation about
>it, because they have zero interest in MS-DOS and that's not going to
>change, given their mandate to produce a Unix-like O/S of their own.
>

This is false. There have been two ports of GCC code. One of straight GCC, and
another of G++. Both require, and come with, a DOS extender. Unfortunately
they are more technical curiosities than anything right now since the DOS
extenders are not compatible with other industry standard extenders or memory
management programs (like QEMM).

Yoshiaki Uchida's port of GNU gcc/gas/gld to MS-DOS is now available at
ocf.berkeley.edu.  Note that NO documentation is available and that this
port is still in experimental stages.  You will need an LHARC dearchiver
to access the programs. It is in ~ftp/pub/GNU/gcc.

The g++ port (by D.J DaLorie) is also available. Don't have the ftp site on me
now, but it did come through C.B.I.P. recently.


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