trm@spider.co.uk (Tom McBeath) (06/16/89)
Help, Please! We bought the DOS-based Intel tools to develop "C" based embedded PROM systems for the 376/386 and now we need something that works. We are looking at Metaware High C, the PharLap Assembler/Linker and the PharLap debugger. Does anyone have any experience with this setup, or any other setup which would allow us to program 376/386 systems? We would like to hear from you. Also, if anyone knows of any Unix Based tools to do the same job (especially those with freely available source), then we would REALLY like to hear. Is the GNU compiler suitable for this type of task? The problems we are having with the Intel tools fall into the following catagories: 1: The Compiler does not separate initialised and uninitialised data (Data and BSS). 2: The compiler is full of annoying deficiencies when compared with the standard Unix compiler. 3: DB386 will only work for very small programs. Please mail responses directly to trm@spider.co.uk. Thanks in advance, Tom McBeath Software Development Manager Spider systems