rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/22/87)
The GNU C compiler is now available for ftp from the file /u2/emacs/gcc.tar on prep.ai.mit.edu. This includes machine descriptions for vax and sun, 60 pages of documentation on writing machine descriptions (internals.texinfo, internals.dvi and Info file internals). This also contains the ANSI standard (Nov 86) C preprocessor and 30 pages of reference manual for it. This compiler compiles itself correctly on the 68020 and did so recently on the vax. It recently compiled Emacs correctly on the 68020, and has also compiled tex-in-C and Kyoto Common Lisp. However, it probably still has numerous bugs that I hope you will find for me. I will be away for a month, so bugs reported now will not be handled until then. If you can't ftp, you can order a compiler beta-test tape from the Free Software Foundation for $150 (plus 5% in Massachusetts, or plus $15 overseas if you want air mail). Free Software Foundation 1000 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA 02138
tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (03/23/87)
There is a mailing list for gcc bug reports: bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu If you are seriously debugging the GNU C Compiler, you can join the list by asking address: bug-gcc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu Future releases of and progress reports on the Compiler will be announced in the usual places, not on bug-gcc. General questions about GNU can be referred to: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu enjoT has pU
scott@mit-eddie.UUCP (03/23/87)
Are there any plans for making the GNU C compiler or gdb work with COFF?
news@umnd-cs.UUCP (03/24/87)
In article <8703221553.AA02281@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman) writes: > >If you can't ftp, you can order a compiler beta-test tape from the >Free Software Foundation for $150 (plus 5% in Massachusetts, or ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ???? Free == $150.00????? >plus $15 overseas if you want air mail). >Free Software Foundation >1000 Mass Ave >Cambridge, MA 02138 -Rob Healey University of Minnesota, Duluth rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu
rlk@bacchus.UUCP (03/25/87)
In article <457@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> rhealey@ub.UUCP (Rob Healey) writes: ]In article <8703221553.AA02281@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman) writes: ]> ]>If you can't ftp, you can order a compiler beta-test tape from the ]>Free Software Foundation for $150 (plus 5% in Massachusetts, or ] ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ???? ] ] Free == $150.00????? Free == you can give it away to anyone you wish, as long as you give 'em source. If you can find somewhere to ftp it from, or can cut a tape from someone's site, or UUCP it over, you're welcome to it. $150 == distribution costs. Of course, this means that if you can find someone who will pay you $5000 for a copy, you're welcome to sell it to them for that price. But it looks like you're on the internet. Why not ftp it from prep.ai.mit.edu or one of the other sites that keeps it available for anonymous ftp? Robert^Z
ron@brl-sem.UUCP (03/27/87)
In article <457@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU>, news@umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU (news) writes: > In article <8703221553.AA02281@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman) writes: > > > >If you can't ftp, you can order a compiler beta-test tape from the > >Free Software Foundation for $150 (plus 5% in Massachusetts, or > ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ???? > > Free == $150.00????? Let's not go into this again. If you think that you can get someone to buy the tapes, do the copy, package, and mail them for less, encourage them to do so. I'd much rather have the FSF writing free software than spending all their time playing tape duplication. $150 is not too out of line when we recently considered it would cost us more than half that to distribute low volume runs of a single floppy disk. By the way, is this going to be comp.fsf or comp.emacs? While the C compiler is useful stuff, it ain't EMACS, and EMACS ain't GNU. I'd suggest realigning these groups a bit. -Ron
karl@cbstr1.UUCP (03/29/87)
news@umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU writes: > >If you can't ftp, you can order a compiler beta-test tape from the > >Free Software Foundation for $150 (plus 5% in Massachusetts, or > ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ???? > Free == $150.00????? The concept of "freedom" is not necessarily related to economics. Karl -- Karl