Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!rex!ames!zodiac!clash!dglo From: dglo@clash.ADS.COM (Dave Glowacki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: gcc for Pyramid Message-ID: <7545@zodiac.UUCP> Date: 12 Apr 89 19:49:39 GMT References: <1032@nixctc.DE> <1033@nixctc.DE> Sender: news@zodiac.UUCP Reply-To: dglo@ads.com (Dave Glowacki) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 20 In article bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >In article <1032@nixctc.DE> pete@relay.NixCtc.de (Pete Delaney) writes: > Has anyone looked at a gcc implementation for the Pyramid? > >I understand that it was done inside Pyramid, mostly as an exercise in >curiosity, and it worked fine. Last I heard, Pyramid was uninterested >in releasing it because it would reveal too much proprietary >information about their system. It was mentioned at the Pyramid Users' Group meeting last June as a possible future direction. >Sounds like someone else outside Pyramid will have to go ahead and do >the work again. Unfortunately, the documentation on their architecture is only released under non-disclosure agreements. I suppose you *could* reverse-engineer everything with lots of "cc -S" runs... -- Dave Glowacki dglo@ads.com Advanced Decision Systems