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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: c++, maybe again
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Date: 17 Feb 89 04:55:58 GMT
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In article <2666@munnari.oz> muller@munnari.oz (Paul Muller) writes:
>I think GNU (GNU's Not Unix, ref Software Foundation) have a C++ implementation
>that sort of works (ie: bits missing or buggy, hey it's free!). I think it is
>called G++, it is here on munnari I think. Been a while since I looked. You
>could probably find it close by.

It seems to be getting better...
>
>Has anyone used GNU stuff? Is it possible to compile with Minix C? I have heard
>that a lot of the stuff is pretty hefty (size, LARGE) and needs at least a Meg
>of RAM to run in...... Anyone?

For ST Minix, I've been using versions of gcc created on a Sun. I haven't
tried to compile ST Minix gcc on Minix, and don't imagine it would be a very
pleasant task. For one thing, the sources are heavily laden with very long
filenames and symbolic links all over the place. As for program size... Yeah,
for gcc, you can find yourself using up to 2 meg of RAM when compiling a good
sized source module with optimization enabled. I chmem'ed the optimizer to
around 2 meg to get it to compile mg. Even on my Mega ST4 w/4 MB RAM, space
gets tight when doing things like that. But yeah, 1 meg is a reasonable size
for typical uses... On the other hand, some of the other utilities, like diff
and grep, are pretty nice. All the features I'd expect from a 4.3BSD version,
plus more speed and smaller size.
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