Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!egisin
From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix/ST <stdio.h> problems.
Message-ID: <541@mks.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 18:23:16 GMT
References: <249@cstw01.UUCP> <2598@sultra.UUCP> <397@zinn.MV.COM> <1187@psu-cs.UUCP>
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In article <1187@psu-cs.UUCP>, kirkenda@psu-cs.UUCP (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
< there are some people in this world who don't... so some highly desirable
< programs are going to be tough to port to MINIX/ST.
< 
< One painful example: GCC.  The author (Stallman) allowed a lot pointer/int
< confusion to creep into his code, so now, to get gcc running under MINIX/ST
< somebody is going to have to dig through (I'm guessing here) about 70,000
< lines of code.

No, just compile GCC and the libraries with 32-bit ints.
You will have to re-write the system call library to
convert between the application's 32-bit ints and the
kernel's 16-bit ints. That's how the ST port of GCC was done.