marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Ellis) (04/24/91)
Seems like quite a few people out there are using the gnu 'C' compiler and debugger. Is it possible to create these tools using the small model, or is this only possible running under the 32-bit version of Minix? Thanks! Mark Ellis
awb@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Alan W Black) (04/25/91)
In article <1676@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> marke@richs118.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Ellis) writes: > > Seems like quite a few people out there are using the gnu 'C' compiler and > debugger. Is it possible to create these tools using the small model, or > is this only possible running under the 32-bit version of Minix? Thanks! > > Mark Ellis The "small model" on MINIX for the 8086 and 80286 is unfortunately too small for much of the GNU software. gcc consists of a number of programs all of which has code sizes bigger than 64k let alone that their data/stack size needs to be much larger than that. In fact it is difficult to run these tools on machines with less than 4Meg of RAM. gdb is a 400k binary and needs 2-300k of memory to run even the smallest of programs. So in short that answer is no these things will only be available on the 32bit version (386 or 68k -- though I don't know about gdb on the 68k yet) Alan Alan W Black 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK Dept of Artificial Intelligence tel: (+44) -31 650 2713 University of Edinburgh email: awb@ed.ac.uk