ol@CERISI.CERISI.FR (Lecarme Olivier) (12/29/89)
We, here in the University of Nice, France, are buying several DECStations and a DEC server with the new RISC architecture. Of course, we are very interested in having all the GNU components installed on them, and if possible relying on GCC rather than on the ordinary C compiler. We are very interested in a Pascal compiler too, because we have several software tools implemented in it (compiler writing systems and language processor generators). The question is: what is the current status of GNU relating to these new machines? What is available presently, and what could be expected in a very near future? Thanks in advance for any answer, and seasons greetings! Olivier Lecarme Olivier Lecarme University of Nice phone: (33) 92 94 26 08 Fax: (33) 92 94 28 98 e-mail: ol@cerisi.cerisi.fr
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (12/29/89)
(I crossposted and redirected followups to gnu.misc.discuss, because
there's nothing about GCC bugs here...)
In article <8912281714.AA10721@mirsa.inria.fr> ol@CERISI.CERISI.FR (Lecarme Olivier) writes:
...what is the current status of GNU relating to these new [DEC
RISC] machines? What is available presently, and what could be
expected in a very near future?
From gcc/config.gcc:
dec-3100 | decstation) # Decstation or pmax.
cpu_type=mips
target_machine=tm-decstatn.h
;;
From emacs/etc/MACHINES:
Pmax, Mips from DEC (m-pmax.h; s-bsd4-3.h)
Minor changes merged in 18.55.
Of the other more machine-dependent stuff, there's no support in gas
or gdb yet. I haven't unpacked the latest g++, or bash, so I can't
say about them for sure, though I'd expect that g++ would be fine.
The other more generic stuff that doesn't much care what machine it's
on (bison, flex, tar, make, chess, go, grep, ghostscript, dbm, diff,
[cg]perf, indent, awk, plot, sed, etc.) shouldn't cause much trouble.