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From: ca063@unocss.UUCP (Thomas Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Where is everyone???
Message-ID: <459@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 16:07:30 GMT
References: <7208@nsc.nsc.com>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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From article <7208@nsc.nsc.com>, by rfg@nsc.nsc.com (Ron Guilmette):
> In article <447@unocss.UUCP> mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis) writes:
>>Our fearless leader will soon have
>>a copy of GCC 1.28 (as soon as I mail it to him), and we have at least two
>>other C compilers and at least two cross-assemblers. 
> 
> Be advised that (a) GCC 1.29 & 1.30 have a rather insidious bug which affects
> the 32000 code generation which I am now tracking down, and (b) note that GCC
> will not work straight out of the box if you want to host and/or target it
> on/for a Genix system.  I will gladly send you patches to 1.30 if you just
> E-mail me and ask for them.
> 
> I am also working on alpha testing of an unreleased version of GAS for the
> 32000.  It generates A.OUT format binaries (not COFF).  It doesn't quite
> work on the Sequent-Balance yet, but I think that it is pretty close.
> 

    I'm working on a 32016 system here at UNO (Mark Lewis pointed me at it..)
I was thinking of using GCC to do my system code (hey, I've got some ideas
on how to do it..).  There is also another bug in GCC, that has been in it
from 1.22 to 1.30 (Try the MAZE.C program posted to comp.sources.misc(?)
GCC's a.out bombs it.  It trys to write to the text segment (no no..)).

    Anyway, I convinced National to send me 2 32016 developers kit, under
the university program (I need to get hold of them..  They arrived, but
they need my university address, but I haven't had the time to send it to
them..)  REAL SOON NOW, I hope to get the hardware up and running..  It's
going to be fun, having a board with about the same power as a VAX.  In
fact the instructor of the class that I'm doing the system for cann't wait
for it be working (he's Intel.  I laugh in his face every time he mentions 
'segments'.)

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