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- From: tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: GCC cross compiler MSDOS --> 68k question
- Keywords: GCC MSDOS 68000 cross compiler help
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.223251.1337@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:32:51 GMT
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- 4bclass@bode.uwaterloo.ca (Elec/CompEng '92 Alumni) writes:
- >Hello everyone,
-
- >I am certain that someone out there has built a full GCC-based cross
- >compiling environment hosted on an MSDOS machine and with a 68k target.
-
- Good for you, you are a man of great faith and astounding confidence.
-
- >I am looking for a fully compiled and built system to save me some time
- >in doing this myself.
-
- You and my aunt Frannie. :-)
-
- >Would you please email me info on where such a beast can be obtained. I
- >appologize if this question has been asked before, but I just started
- >reading this newsgroup.
-
- OK, all kidding aside, I am not too optimistic about this. I embarked
- on an attempt to do this some time ago with gcc 1.39 and hit the following
- barriers:
-
- The version of the Microsoft compiler I had then (4.0) was
- (to be polite) sadly lacking. The gnu folks love to use run-on
- variable and function names like "expression_in_progress_now()"
- and such. Microsoft cc chopped these to 6 or 8 characters which
- led to lots of nasty clashes. Some other compiler gagging problems
- popped up that I forget the details of. Some really gigantic
- .h files were choking the compiler as I remember.
-
- 640K just won't cut it for gcc. Running gcc 1.40 on my virtual
- memory 3b1 machine (a 68010 based machine running unix) will
- routinely use over 1M of address space, in fact on rare occasions
- it runs out of VM with a 3.5M address space. One of my machines
- actually has 3.5M physical, so don't tell me I don't have `nuff
- swap space.
-
- If you are determined, it could probably be done with one of the new
- compilers (like Zortech C for the 386) that generate native mode code.
- I agree it would be a nice thing. Another possibility is that this post
- will bring someone out of the bushes to prove me wrong.
-
- >
- >Thank you for your time,
- > Alex Leyn
-
- Best of luck -- my problems were solved by setting up a cross compiler
- on a sun sparcstation, and then later by acquiring my 3b1 and using it
- for cross development -- I have a spare, wanna buy a cheap 3b1?
- --
- Tom Trebisky ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu
- ...."There's no sense in being precise when you don't even
- .... know what you're talking about."
- - John von Neumann
-