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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU c and c++ under MINIX (long)
Message-ID: <4073@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 15 Sep 88 14:44:43 GMT
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I got GCC running on my Vaxstation.  Pretty painless.

I tried to get it running on a 32016 (Opus board, Sys V.2).  Some problems, I
gave up after I invested about 5 hours (for the time being).

GCC has a codegenerator for the 80386.  When I have  time, I'm going to look
into seeing what it takes to produce a 386 protected mode minix system.  (I
already got the 286 running in protected mode).  The big problem now is the 64k
limit in segment sizes.  It should be possible in the 386 to have large programs
(like gcc run).

My understanding is the ack source code is pretty useless without the ACK system
(andy?).

I also am getting a 386i soon, so I'll have another 386 system to play on.

If you have an arpanet connection, you can gut gnu for free (I think I got mine
from simtel20).

I think the gnu tools would be a welcome addition to Minix -- I haven't filtered
through the source code, but the only think I know of which is missing from
Minix would be alloca().  Also the gnu distribution has a plethora of tools.

I've had terrible luck with the Minix C compiler (everything I port to it has
problems).  I quickly recompiled some of my favorite programs on gnu on the
Vaxstation (John Gilmore's tar, Ian Darwin's file) and had no problems.

BTW -- the gnu vaxstation dhrystones was better than the Ultrix C compilers.

marty
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