Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!aipna!awb From: awb@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Alan W Black) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Is 16-bit gdb or gcc possible? Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 10:42:52 GMT References: <1676@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Followup-To: marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK Lines: 25 In-reply-to: marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com's message of 24 Apr 91 12:38:22 GMT In article <1676@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Ellis) writes: > > Seems like quite a few people out there are using the gnu 'C' compiler and > debugger. Is it possible to create these tools using the small model, or > is this only possible running under the 32-bit version of Minix? Thanks! > > Mark Ellis The "small model" on MINIX for the 8086 and 80286 is unfortunately too small for much of the GNU software. gcc consists of a number of programs all of which has code sizes bigger than 64k let alone that their data/stack size needs to be much larger than that. In fact it is difficult to run these tools on machines with less than 4Meg of RAM. gdb is a 400k binary and needs 2-300k of memory to run even the smallest of programs. So in short that answer is no these things will only be available on the 32bit version (386 or 68k -- though I don't know about gdb on the 68k yet) Alan Alan W Black 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK Dept of Artificial Intelligence tel: (+44) -31 650 2713 University of Edinburgh email: awb@ed.ac.uk