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From: nick@holland-consulting.net (Nick Holland)
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 22:14:38 -0400
Subject: [pups] gcc-.3.4.6 for pdp11
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Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Before people devote too much effort to flogging a dead horse, I,
> too, have recently tried to build a gcc cross-compiler for the
> PDP-11 with no success.  I have not seen a version that worked
> since GCC 2.something.  It is possible that changes to GCC have
> broken the PDP-11 code and that no one is keeping it up.  I would
> love to hear otherwise if anyone has successfully built a pdp-11
> cross compiler using anything vaguely current.
> 
> bill

The GCC team has dropped a lot of older and "less interesting"
(in their minds) platforms from active support (and made the thing
too slow for anything but modern processors, but that's another
rant).

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#older

What would be wrong with using gcc 2.95 or older?

Nick.