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From:         Christoph van Wuellen <HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject:      Re: (c386) OK, what now?
Message-ID: <52043@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 18:26:11 GMT
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Since other guys run GCC under MINIX-386, it should be no problem
to get a working toolset (as, ld, ar,...) c386 just serves those
who cannot afford GCC (due to memory shortage) but who can afford
gas, gcc-ld etc (which are not as demanding as gcc-cc1 itself).

Someone has told me that he has written an alternate output module
for c386 (substituting out386_gas.c) which produces output suitable
for the bcc assembler.

Besides, gcc-ld is not too difficult to port to the MINIX object file
format, ONLY the header (which is of the same length incidentally)
differs. So gas/gcc-ld seems to be happy with MINIX-386 with
reasonable effort.
C.v.W.