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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Subject: Re:  Does anyone have gcc for the i860?
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Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Date: 8 May 91 03:38:33 GMT
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> I am a devotee of hopeless causes, so I am trying to compile the MIT
> distribution of X 11R4 in order to end up with an X server on an
> Alliant fx2800.  My first attempts have met with failure because the
> Alliant C preprocessor, scc0, doesn't paste tokens together in the
> fashion expected by the X developers, and I end up with thousands of
> compiler errors.  The X documentation that comes with the release
> says the gcc is the compiler of choice, so my question is...

> Does anybody have gcc ported to (and producing code for :-)) the
> intel i860 micro?  Lacking that, does anybody have a preprocessor
> that handles token pasting as required by the X sources?

I wrote a preprocessor that I believe sticks fairly closely to the
Reiser semantics.  Since X can be built on old systems with Reiser
cpps, this should be good enough for your purposes.  (My preprocessor
is good enough for use with imake when building X, and I've used it for
all normal C compilations on some of our machines for years, so the
semantics must match Reiser's pretty closely.)

I have placed this preprocessor in the public domain.  It can be had by
ftp from 132.206.1.1 in X/XNeXT/cpp* (I built this while porting X to
the NeXT), or by mail from me if you can't ftp it for some reason.

					der Mouse

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