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From: donald@warwick.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Porting GCC to Atari ST
Message-ID: <515@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 06:12:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 06:12:37 1987
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Reply-To: donald@warwick.UUCP (Tim Bissell)
Organization: Need-to-know Software/The Donald project
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Keywords: C GCC Gnu FSF

In article <597@elmgate.UUCP> jdg@aurora.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky) writes:
[ loads of lines deleted...
>These comments are mine alone and not Eastman Kodak's.  How's that for a
>simple and complete disclaimer?
]

Leaving aside the vitriol, I noticed (from a brief glance at the gcc
sources) that you need bison to generate the parser.  I have tried to
compile Bison on the ST using Mark Williams C, and although I succeeded
in compiling all the source files (by dint of writing my own bcopy() and
fudging around alloca()) I could not get the darned thing to link
(thousands of symbolic relocations for the MWC cogniscenti).  I assume
this was due to sloppy coding on the part of the FSF i.e.  char * == int
assumptions etc. 

Anyway what I want to know is, has anyone compiled Bison successfully on
the atari? If so, using which compiler? Also, does anyone have any
documentation for Bison? If so, can I have/pay costs for it? Please
please PLEASE mail me rather than posting to the net; we get a very
small percentage of the stuff posted here, so I often never see replies
to my postings.  I will of course summarise to the net. 

Thanks in advance, 
-- 
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