From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Given Subject: Re: Porting to different architectures Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:03:32 +0100 Message-ID: <44CE29D4.4040008@cowlark.com> References: <20060731140941.IIPE1187.ibm68aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> <01ad01c6b4b2$07e4c790$6502a8c0@dionysus> <44CE232F.4080606@wallman.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2B9D3CA63E85657C745A120F" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44CE232F.4080606@wallman.org.uk> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: To: Linux-8086 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2B9D3CA63E85657C745A120F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Richard Wallman wrote: [...] > I've been working on getting it to work with GCC for 386+ processors, > and it's not pretty. GCC support would make porting a lot easier, given= > the number of processor targets it supports. Is anyone interested in hearing that I've nearly managed to get the ACK (Minix' native compiler) into a usable state? It supports ANSI C, K&R C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam and Basic for a bunch of different architectures, which include i80, i86 and i386. The code isn't as good as what gcc produces, but it is a tiny fraction of the size, and it's also BSD licensed. I'm still working on the syscall libraries required for the ACK's own built-in libc, but if you didn't want to use that, it's more or less there now. (It should also be reasonably easy to retarget --- compared to gcc, at least. Does the 65C265 have a compiler?) --=20 +- David Given --McQ-+ "You cannot truly appreciate _Atlas Shrugged_ | dg@cowlark.com | until you have read it in the original Klingon." | (dg@tao-group.com) | --- Sea Wasp on r.a.sf.w +- www.cowlark.com --+ --------------enig2B9D3CA63E85657C745A120F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEzinXf9E0noFvlzgRAtU8AJ9RVr7hYbTR7YZJusCBCs45wP0UEgCfZRHd fQYHjrxcIYHQ1MJPu7V7k0c= =wlTQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2B9D3CA63E85657C745A120F--