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From: brians@hpcljms.HP.COM (Brian Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GNU C on Amiga?
Message-ID: <1250006@hpcljms.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 89 22:07:31 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> Has anyone ported the GNU C compiler to the amiga?  If so, I would be
> very interested in hearing about the effort and obtaining a copy.
> If not, would anyone be interested in discussing such a project?
> 
> stan@hp-pcd.hp.com

Hello Stan,
   I would only attempt such an idea if I had 4+ Megs of RAM.  I haven't built
a GNU C Compiler but I have heard that it is a memory pig.  Which isn't
a problem on UNIX :-), which I use here at HP.  But, for the lowly Amiga
with out any Virtual Memory, this presents a problem.  When a UNIX machine
runs out of memory. it just slows down and uses the Hard Disk but if your
running GNU C on your Amiga and you run out of memory, you would be likely 
to crash, or abort if your luckey.  

   I myself have an Amiga 1000 with 1 Meg, so although I would like to use
the GNU C compiler I don't think that it would be possible for my machine.
There are some GNU tools that have been ported I belive.  The one GNU
tool that I known exist on the Amiga is "BISON" which is like yacc,  which
is the UNIX name for a preprocessor type tool.  You might want to get that
to start with.


        -- Brian --