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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: c++, maybe again
Message-ID: <10008@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 22:37:49 GMT
References: <7737@louie.udel.EDU> <590004@hpsad.HP.COM>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <590004@hpsad.HP.COM> walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole) writes:
>GNU is mainly targeted at 68000 class machines with large contiguous address
>spaces.  Much of the GNU stuff is very good, but difficult to port to 8086-like
>machines.

GNU is targeted at machines with large (possibly virtual) address spaces and
sizeof(int)==32.  The GNU c compiler has been running on 386 machines since
sometime in the middle of '88.  The current versions of the GNU compiler,
assembler, and linker all support the 386.  (It should be pointed out that
the 386 support in gas is brand-new and not completely tested.)

So who's going to be the first one to have the GNU compiler running under
Minix on a 386?  It could be you!   :-)   

Paul Allen

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