vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) (01/24/91)
In article <718@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: In article <26429@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> pm0@springs.cis.ufl.edu (Patrick Martin) writes: > [...] >If I could have held off my purchase of C++ I would have. (Especially >in light of the current development of G++) > >Pat This is the second post I've seen mentioning _G_++. At first, I thought it was just a weird typo. So what is G++? Some sort of C++ dialect/offshoot, or just some marketdroid's idea of a clever name? G++ is the Free Software Foundation's GNU C++ compiler, a close relative to the GNU C compiler which is usually referred to as GCC. Rather than call GNU C++ GC++, it seems they dropped the C and left was G++. Or is it just a weird typo (that spreads... ;-)? One never know; it could be a human fnger virus; whenever you try to type C the virus causes you to write G :-). Regarding the porting of G++ to the Amiga, I'd like to point out that as far as I know, nobody is currently working actively on it; instead the group have started working on porting the next major revision of GCC which has C++ and Objective C frontends built in. (Ie., since that version will be ported anyway, it feels unnecessary to do the job twice). If you feel you can't wait, as far as I understand what needs to be done is make GNU ld++ behave as the Amiga port of GNU ld (work done by Markus Wild). Other than that, it should be as easy as installing GCC and typing make in the G++ dir. (I'm probably overlooking something). The source to the ported ld is available on nic.funet.fi in the directory ~pub/amiga/gnu/gcc/port/Wild/ The file is: -rw-rw-r-- 1 vinsci ftp 33912 Jan 3 05:55 ld910101.lzh If you want to join the maillinglist of the group, send a message to mailserv@nic.funet.fi with a contents as follows: Subject: whatever subs amiga-gcc-port My Realworld Name help The line with the HELP causes a help message with a full description of commands available, including how to unsubscribe, to be sent back to you. Dave Schaumann | And then -- what then? Then, future... dave@cs.arizona.edu | -Weather Report -- Leonard
jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay) (01/26/91)
From article <VINSCI.91Jan23223706@nic.nic.funet.fi>, by vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard): > Regarding the porting of G++ to the Amiga, I'd like to point out > that as far as I know, nobody is currently working actively on it; > instead the group have started working on porting the next major > revision of GCC which has C++ and Objective C frontends built in. I believe that you are talking about v2.0 of GCC/G++. I was at the FSF BOF (birds-of-a-feather) general discussion on Tuesday night (1/22) and I believe that Len Tower (one of the originals of the FSF, and their main sorta-publicity type person) said that GCC/G++ 2.0 on the Amiga would probably be one of the first ports. I might even say that it was going to be the first, but I can't really remember. Seems like it was either the Amiga or some H-P workstations. Since both use Moto 680xx then it is probably just a matter of how many machines the FSF has of each and how many people are working on the project (2-4 probably). He would not give a release date, but it will probably be in the next couple of months. This is all from memory and I wasn't paying close attention at the time. Maybe if someone else was there also then they could give more details. john gay.