tuna@athena.mit.edu (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson) (06/29/89)
In article <1181@marlin.NOSC.MIL> jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones) writes: >I found out from one of the pieces here on the net that GNU has put out >a C compiler (GCC compiler?). If this is true, and if anyone within the >range of my keyboard has a copy of this, could you send it to me? i was under the impression that GCC only existed for UNIX-type systems (it is available on some BSD 4.3 systems around here). if it is possible to run it under MSDOS on 80x86/8 machines, i too would love to get a copy. but, alas, i don't think that is the case. kirk
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (06/29/89)
Sure, you could get it to *run* on MS-LOSS, but you would have trouble getting it to generate code for anything less than a 80386... -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Democracy needs capitalism like a fish needs a bicycle.
Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (06/30/89)
In article <NELSON.89Jun28225658@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: }Sure, you could get [GCC] to *run* on MS-LOSS, but you would have trouble }getting it to generate code for anything less than a 80386... You'd have a little :-) trouble running a 1M+ executable under MSDOS.... On our VAX here, GCC's passes are 100K (CPP), 1.2M (CC), 200K (AS), and 73K (LD). Even given that C code compiled for an 8086 tends to be about 10% smaller than the same program compiled on a VAX, we're still talking over a megabyte for the compiler proper. GNU programs also tend to assume that they can grab megabytes of memory.... -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=-=- Voice: (412) 268-3053 (school) ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 Disclaimer? I claimed something? "When things start going your way, it's usually because you stopped going the wrong way down a one-way street."