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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: GNU c and c++ under MINIX
Message-ID: <7656@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 20:23:56 GMT
References: <2358@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <2358@alliant.Alliant.COM> rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
>there has been a lot of discussion in the past regarding the huge cost of
>source for the minix c compiler. has gcc (the GNU c compiler) and possibly
>g++ (the GNU c++ compiler) been ported to minix? since it is essentially free,
>this sounds like a very attractive alternative to the existing situation.
>
>if it has not been ported, can it be ported? gcc is available in a number
>of places (i know of UUCP access from osu-cis). gcc has already been ported
>to the atari ST (but it has more memory :^). it is BIG and this might be
>a problem on 640k systems.

Gcc has been ported to run under Unix on 386 boxes.  It seems to be
fairly stable, but is still generating occaisional bug reports.  One
hitch is that the 386 gcc currently generates 386 assembly output only.
So anyone porting 386 gcc to MINIX will need to come up with a
reasonably compatible 386 assembler.  From previous discussions, it seems 
that gcc will *never* run on PC's.  So, who wants to volunteer to make 
MINIX run in protected virtual mode on a 386 and then port gcc?  :-)

Paul

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