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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
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Subject: Re: Stupid questions about Minix-386 ...
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Date: 17 Apr 91 12:30:42 GMT
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HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:

>What about tryinc c386 if you are concerned about a compiler with source?

>c386 may just replace GNU C. That means your toolbox will be

>GNU cpp, as, ld, ar and c386.

>Personally, I dont work with c386, so it is necessary YOU work with it
>to develop it further.

I can highly recommend c386. It produces much better code than bcc and
it implements a larger subset of C.I wrote a backend that generates code
for Bruce's as instead of gas (Gas uses bitfields and cannot be compiled
with bcc, and I did not try to crosscompile it on a workstation). Took
me about an afternoon. I have not yet tested it properly, but I did not
have any problems in the last two weeks. I will try to recompile c386
with itself, and if that works I will consider it tested and will post
it if there is interest.

Christoph, I had to change not only out386_gas.c but a few other files
also to make it work. Do you want to have a look at it before I post
the diffs? Also, compliments on your clear code. It was much easier to
find out what I had to change than I had expected.
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