Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!augean!sibyl!ian From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: Re: GCC for the Symmetric Computer Systems 32016 box available. Message-ID: <903@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> Date: 8 Apr 91 23:12:59 GMT Article-I.D.: sibyl.903 References: <197@freedm.UUCP> Reply-To: ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall) Organization: Engineering, Uni of Adelaide, Australia Lines: 40 In article <197@freedm.UUCP> scott@freedm.UUCP (Scott Stratmoen) writes: >Just for curiosity, does anyone still run a ICM-3216? I do, but maybe not for much longer. (Just as soon as I get an operating system running on my PC532). > If so, is there any >interest in native coff GCC-1.39, G++-1.39 and GDB-1.35 for said platform? ^^^^^^ As you note (later) there is an assembler bug which IMO makes native mode undesirable. > - In addition, as the native pcc is not able to compile gcc, you either > need some other compiler (i.e. gnx, pcc from the ICM-332-1, etc) or > the binary of gcc. Native (as in uses the native "as" and "ld") gcc binary's for the ICM 3216 are available for anonymous ftp from augean.eleceng.ua.oz. This is (I think) 1.37, but it is suitable for bootstrapping. > - There still remains two known bugs, one caused by a md problem which > appears in less than 1% of optimizations. Do you have code to exercise this bug? I would be interested in checking whether I have it or not in my port. > The other is > due to a problem in the native assembler. This is a minor problem > involving typedef's of functions when debugging information is > in the as source. There is also a bug in ld which manifests its self from time to time. I think it also has to do with debugging information (I knew, but I forget). It is problems like these which made me, eventually, go for the coff-encapsulation stuff so I could use gas and binutils. Ian Dall -- Ian Dall I'm not into isms, but hedonism is the most harmless I can think of. -- Phillip Adams ACSnet: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.oz internet: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.oz.au