[gnu.gcc.help] OS/2 port of gcc/g++?

strasser@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Michael Strasser) (06/20/91)

Has anyone ported gcc and/or g++ to OS/2?  I have access to DJ Delorie's
port to MS-DOS: is that a suitable substitute?

I am moving to OS/2 soon, and would like a good C/C++ development system.

--
Mike Strasser
Psychology Dept
The University of Queensland

ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) (06/20/91)

strasser@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Michael Strasser) writes:

>Has anyone ported gcc and/or g++ to OS/2?  I have access to DJ Delorie's
>port to MS-DOS: is that a suitable substitute?
>I am moving to OS/2 soon, and would like a good C/C++ development system.

More importantly - is someone going to look at porting gcc/g++ to OS/2 v2
when it is released properly ??  It would be soooo much better if it
produced 32bit code

ant

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james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) (06/23/91)

In <1991Jun20.113229.27552@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>, ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au
	(Anthony Murdoch) wrote:

> More importantly - is someone going to look at porting gcc/g++ to
> OS/2 v2 when it is released properly??  It would be soooo much better
> if it produced 32bit code

I ported gcc1 to use Intel's 386 syntax.  Unfortunately, at that time
I could find no Intel-syntax assembler that worked in `use32' mode,
including the OS/2 2.0 assembler.

The port of gcc to produce Intel-syntax is easy.  The problem is that
there isn't much use for the output yet.
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wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (06/24/91)

It will be difficult to port the "big" GNU tools to OS/2 1.x, since it still
deals with 64K segments.  However, OS/2 2.0 has a 32-bit flat memory model,
and I suspect that once it's out, some cunning programmer will port them
in a flash.