From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish)
Subject: [TUHS] [pups] gcc-3.4.6 and old unix
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:05:20 +1200 (NZST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145883920.444ccd101dfd0@www.paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <444C9F70.2030409@icpnet.pl>
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Quoting Andrzej Popielewicz <vasco at icpnet.pl>:
> Wesley Parish napisaÅ(a):
>
> >djggp relies on a DOS extender to run its 32-bit programs in a 16-bit
> >operating environment on a 32-bit machine. go32 is Delorie's own DOS
> extender
> >- OpenWatcom offers at least two other DOS extenders to pull the same
> kind of
> >trick.
> >
> >
> I know that, because I have used djgpp for a quite lot of time.
>
> I thought , that Bill wanted to "scale down" gcc compiler to 16 bit
> environment, and probably djgpp could be a good starting point.
> I understand , that gcc is not "directly" portable.But because gcc can
> create pdp code in cross compile environment, perhaps it is not
> impossible .
In that case, all I can suggest is that the gcc source files are
cross-compiled to pdp11, and error messages noted. Then the files get
rewritten for the pdp11 ... I'm sorry I can't help - I'm neither a gcc guru
nor a pdp11 guru.
>
> BTW I have just ported Bob Supnik pdp11 emulator to Coherent 4.2.10 and
> it seems to work(compile works etc). Coherent being 32 bit for 386
> processors has nonetheless 286 support builtin in kernel, so it seems to
>
> be good environment for this simulator (?).
That's good news!
> I have the same problem as Bill, I have to kill pdp11 process on another
>
> console to exit.
You're not the only one, either.
Wesley Parish
>
>
> Andrzej
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-24 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-23 23:27 [TUHS] " Bill Cunningham
2006-04-24 0:00 ` Peter Jeremy
2006-04-24 0:33 ` Michael Davidson
2006-04-24 7:33 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-04-24 7:47 ` Peter Jeremy
2006-04-24 8:44 ` Wesley Parish
2006-04-24 9:50 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-04-24 13:05 ` Wesley Parish [this message]
2006-04-24 16:06 ` [TUHS] [pups] " Toby Thain
2006-04-25 6:28 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-04-24 9:29 ` [TUHS] " Lars Brinkhoff
2006-04-24 12:53 ` John Cowan
2006-04-25 12:53 [TUHS] [pups] " patv
2006-05-02 16:52 ` Charlie ROOT
2006-05-03 1:17 ` Pat Villani
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