jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) (07/24/89)
As I have pointed out previously, the current C compiler has little
functionality beyond recompiling the kernel. Also, if you plan on compiling
to protect mode whether it be 286, 386, or even 486, that's not supported.
You will have to cross compile from another OS. As for GCC, GCC will not work
on anything less than a 386 because of its huge memory requirements and demand
for a linear 32-bit address space to work with. If GCC were to be ported to
a 286, a lot of it were have to be rewritten. So if you want Minix and GCC,
you're going to first have to get Minix into 386 protect mode with 32-bit
segments.
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