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- This archive contains the source for GCC, the Gnu C compiler, as ported
- to the Atari ST.
-
- Please read the file COPYING to understand your rights and
- responsibilities as a user of GNU software.
-
- This stuff doesn't need to live in any particular place; I put it in
- \gnu\gcc\. This is just sources; the binaries for these programs are
- packaged separately, in GCX-1-23.ARC.
-
- Since GCC is a portable compiler, the distribution from FSF contains
- many files for machines like NS32000s, Vaxes, etc. In order to save a
- little space in the distribution, I have not included those files
- here, as they are of no use on the Atari. If you want copies of them
- let me know, and I'll send you some, or point you at where you can get
- them.
-
- As with all my ports of GNU software, all changes from the original
- GNU sources are conditionalized with "#ifdef atarist". This version
- of cpp defines that symbol as a canned def, so it should just work.
- There really aren't that many changes needed to run on the ST; mostly
- de-Eunuchsifiying the pathname hacking code, and adding facilities to
- parameterize the places that various programs will look for things; ie
- looking up the env var "GNULIB" instead of looking in /usr/lib/.
-
- I have also left out the .texinfo files of documentation source, as I
- don't know of any TeX for the ST. I have included the "internals-n"
- files generated from that source.
-
- Many of the pathnames of the original files were too long to fit into
- the primitive ST file system, and have been truncated using the
- obvious algorithm. Unfotunately, some of them would have ended up
- conflicting with each other, so I've shortened some of them by hand.
- Primary examples are the doc files of compiler internals; they used to
- be called "internals-1" etc, they've been shortened to "int-1" etc.
-
- Some pathnames were hopelessly Eunuchs specific; ie parse.tab.c. That
- one I shortened to parsetab.c.
-
- Building the thing:
-
- The MAKEFILE included here works with the GNU make (shipped
- separately). It may work with other makes. I've included the
- original unhacked makefile as MAKEFILE.GNU.
-
- Because of nasty bugs in Gulam, GNU Make will sometimes crash after
- executing any command that required asking Gulam to execute; ie
- anything that requires redirection or any command make can't decode
- for itself. Building GCC does a log of that, so if your Gulam loses
- as badly as mine, you may want to build some stuff by hand first.
-
- Stack sizes:
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- This version of cc1 is configured for 1/2 meg of stack. That's a good
- number on my 2.5 Meg 520, but will likely lose if you've only got a
- meg. The stack for cpp is set at 1/4 meg, as it likes to stack-cons
- buffers for include files. Gcc doesn't much matter.
-
-
- I guess that's it. Good luck.
-
- JRD@Stony-Brook.SCRC.Symbolics.COM.
-