gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (04/11/88)
hermit@devon.UUCP (Mark Buda) wrote: > Has anybody ported GCC to the 386 and gotten it to run under > Minix? Would anybody like GCC ported to the 386 if nobody's done it? Someone from MCC ported GCC to the 386, but last I spoke with RMS, the changes were not generic enough (too many hooks into random places in the compiler were used). Richard is working with the author to refine the port and merge it into the master GCC sources. I seriously doubt that the port was done under Minix however, and I think that given the state of the Minix libraries, bringing over GCC or any other major piece of software will be "interesting". Hell, the guy who ported my little PD Tar (Richard Todd) had to write or fix about six library routines, and circumvent bugs in a bunch of others! GCC does support the 32xxx; it runs on Sequents. I think people have been working on making Encores and Symmetrics work too, but those are not done yet. There is a GNU subroutine library being built by Roland McGrath, but it's still in the "author test" stage. Standard I/O is the hardest part. -- {pyramid,pacbell,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com I forsee a day when there are two kinds of C compilers: standard ones and useful ones ... just like Pascal and Fortran. Are we making progress yet? -- ASC:GUTHERY%slb-test.csnet
worsley@ditmela.oz (Andrew Worsley) (07/28/88)
We are thinking of buying an IBM clone to run MINIX on and do some
development work with. Has any one any experience with 80386 machines,
a tower ? machine. We know they have a different DMA controller and so
MINIX will need some porting to get it working. We need to know how
reliably other PC cards will work on it. e.g. WD ethernet card and the
JT Fax cards (or other Fax cards). Any other comments welcome.
Peter Kay & Andrew Worsley
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