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From: arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl (Arno Griffioen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Cross-compiling Minix programs on the Sun
Keywords: GCC, Porting
Message-ID: <2031@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl>
Date: 14 Jun 91 06:15:01 GMT
References: <56212@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl (Arno Griffioen)
Organization: Commodore Nederland B.V. Unix Support Center
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In article <56212@nigel.ee.udel.edu> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
>Cross-compilations on a SPARCstation for MINIX ST are no problem --
>the 'old' GCC port by J. Bammi contains a linker that directly ships
>out MINIX ST executables. You only have to fix a single point:

Please tell me where I can find it. (Plains.nodak.edu?) I don't have FTP
access so it has to be a mail-server :-( (And please: a filename)

>Relocating longs on positions which are not a multiple of 4 gives
>an alignment (bus) error on SPARC, you have to copy the item to
>a local 'long' variable, perform the relocation, and copy it back
>(using bcopy).


Thanx for telling that... I'd like to use this compiler to port ST-MINIX 1.5
to an (oooollldd) 68010 machine.. this could be a god starting-point.

							Bye Arno.
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