Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!philmds!nlgvax!johan
From: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C compiler in Atari port
Message-ID: <223@nlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 20:55:30 GMT
References: <217@dutrun.UUCP>
Reply-To: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
Organization: Philips Research Geldrop
Lines: 25
Keywords: c-compiler, Atari-ST port

In article <217@dutrun.UUCP> tnsgvdp@dutrun.UUCP (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
>Does anybody know how the people that did the Atari ST port included a
>c compiler into the port? They couldn't use the MINIX cc compiler
>because this generates Intel 8088 code. So what did they do?
>- Did they use the Motorola 68000 backend of the ACK?
>- Did they hack around in the binaries of the MINIX cc compiler?
>- or ...?

The C compiler for MINIX-ST is made by Ceriel Jacobs from the
Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. It is based on ACK.
The 68000 backend uses 2-byte ints and 4-byte pointers.
The MINIX-ST C compiler conatins a separate assembler and linker
in contrast with MINIX-PC that uses a combined assembler/linker.
The loadfile format is similar to the format used for MINIX-PC,
except that relocation information is added (same format as used by
.PRG files under TOS).

				Johan W. Stevenson,
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