Richard_Conto@um.cc.umich.EDU (04/05/87)
Greetings,
I thought I sent this out a couple weeks ago, but I didn't even
see it come reflected back to this mailing list... If you've seen
this before, then I apologize for pounding on this list, but we
really would like to get information about this...
The Merit Computer Network is looking for a "C" compiler for PDP-11
architecture machines that could be used with it's current programming
environment (a non-Unix, cross-assembled environment.)
I have heard that the "C" compiler that comes with some variety
of PDP-11 Unix (I was told, but forgot) might be suitable, but I
would like to know about more options, if any.
Our present environment involves assembling, linking, and loading
complete system immages from a system called MTS, which has a C
compiler of it's own (one radically revised version of C-Bell for
IBM systems to make it more ANSI standard, and generally functional.)
It would be best for us if we could (somehow) get the compiler to
produce object file formats that we use, but recognizing the
difficulty of this, a compiler that just produces op codes from the
DEC PDP-11 handbook would suffice. (That would allow us to use our
own assemblers and familiar object file format.)
As one of my previous sentances implied, it would be best if we
could get source for this compiler, but since we have a some Sun
workstations, using binaries for the Sun is a possibility. (That
would definitely not be a permanent solution though!)
I do watch the "Info-C" and "Info-Unix" mailing lists, but if
you'd rather not post things back here, you can send suggestions
to me at:
ARPA/Internet: Richard_Conto@um.cc.umich.edu
or rsc@umix.cc.umich.edu
U.S.Mail: Richard Conto
Merit Computer Network
5112 IST
2200 Bonisteel Bvld.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mi.
48109
Phone: (313) 764-9423
(I don't know what my complete UUCP mail address is, but "umix"
is supposed to be 'well known', and so "umix!rsc" might get you
there.)
If you'd like a summary, I'm willing to provide one, but this is
a rather rare request... how many people can be doing
cross-development for PDP11s anyway?