andy@cs.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe) (11/22/90)
Archive-name: 3b1-gas/21-Nov-90 Original-posting-by: andy@cs.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe) Original-subject: Re: more software for the masses Archive-site: csvax.cs.caltech.edu [131.215.131.131] Archive-directory: /pub/3b1 Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <4432@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> alex@BlackKiss.acslab.umbc.edu.UUCP (Alex S. Crain) writes: > On another note, I built gas (the GNU assembler) for the 3b1. > >I would be greatly appreciative of the person who builds gas compatable >gcc-1.37 and posts the binary for ftp. I managed to build gcc that uses gas. That was the easy part, relatively speaking. It turns out that gas, as it was distributed, does not get along well with the 3b1's loader. So it had to be patched. On csvax.cs.caltech.edu, there is the file /pub/3b1/gcc-gas.tar.Z which contains the binaries for gcc and gas, a patch file for gas, and the configuration file tm-3b1g.h that was used to build gcc. Hopefully Lenny will be able to get this file transferred to OSU for the world to get access to it. ------- While I'm here, I'll give my views on the great newsgroup name change. I suggested in another posting that the group should be comp.sys.att.3b1. My reasoning is the following: the existence of equivalent machines (from Motorola, etc.) notwithstanding, the purpose of the newsgroup is primarily to support a particular AT&T machine. This is reflected, if nowhere else, in the choice of "3b1" -- an AT&T designation -- to be used in the newsgroup name. It seems strange to me to argue that the best name for the group is "3b1" while arguing that it is not appropriate to make the newsgroup a subgroup of comp.sys.att. If there's a real concern that, say, Convergent machines will be left out if the newgroup is a subgroup of comp.sys.att, then maybe the name of choice should be comp.sys.safari. Andy Fyfe andy@cs.caltech.edu