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- From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.advocacy
- Subject: Re: RISC OS 3 PRM's
- Message-ID: <JKH.92Dec30022216@whisker.lotus.ie>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 02:22:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov27.171126.10430@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Dec1.190611.191@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
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- In-Reply-To: adamd@rhi.hi.is's message of 29 Dec 92 19: 04:18 GMT
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- In article <5885@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
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- >suggested porting Gcc to the Arc., as a third year project. I am seriously
- >considering this, but then how do I compile the compiler, without a compiler?
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- Cross-compile first on another machine architecture that already has working
- Gcc and all support tools. I'm not saying it's easy though, I'd be willing to
- try if the standard Acorn filesystem was not so brain-damaged.
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- That's the approach I'm taking.. A 486 is the cross compilation platform.
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- Jordan
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- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
- I DO NOT SPEAK FOR LOTUS - IT HAS PLENTY OF LAWYERS TO DO THAT FOR IT ALREADY
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