stan@hpcvca.HP.COM (Stan Gibbs) (01/21/89)
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
brians@hpcljms.HP.COM (Brian Sullivan) (01/24/89)
> 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 --