[TUHS] gcc-3.4.6 and old unix

[vasco@icpnet.pl (Andrzej Popielewicz)]

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Michael Davidson napisał(a):

>Bill Cunningham wrote:
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>>   Has anyone thought of or tried to port the gcc to the old unixes? It
>>would have to be a very scaled down version. A C compiler that would work
>>with modern c89 or c99. Something to get a C compiler working that would
>>compile todays programs. The old C compilers can be kept for safekeeping as
>>they don't work much anymore.
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>By "the old unixes" I assume that you mean things like V6 and V7
>for the PDP-11.
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>Both gcc and GNU binutils already support PDP-11 targets, at
>least to some extent, so you can already do cross development
>targeted at the PDP-11.
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>Trying to actually host gcc on a 16 bit UNIX system is almost
>certainly a completely futile and pointless exercise - it is many,
>*many* times too big and I am pretty sure that it assumes at
>least a 32 bit host - if you cut it down enough so that it fit it
>isimply wouldn't be gcc any more.
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>I suspect that you would also find that most of "todays programs"
>wouldn't fit either ...
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>Michael Davidson
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>[ and, actually, the old C compiuers still work just fine for
> ompiling the code that they were priginally intended for ]
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What about creating "old unix" version of djgpp. djgpp compiler is 32 
bit "gcc" running in 16 bit DOS.
Perhaps DeJorie could help.

Andrzej