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From: Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>,
	ian reinhart geiser <geiseri@msoe.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: OLD gcc source needed...
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:32:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991017173229.A9773@elmo.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9910171727.AA10306@marc.watson.ibm.com>; from David Edelsohn on Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 01:27:32PM -0400


On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 01:27:32PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
> 	gcc-2.6.3 did not support Linux/PPC.  It may not have supported
> SVR4/ELF PowerPC ABI used by Linux/PPC at all.

As I recall, there were patches floating around in the LinuxPPC group adding
support.  True they weren't in the FSF repository, but they were available as
part of the initial LinuxPPC that Gary put out.  Of course the changes for SVR4
to LinuxPPC are fairly minimal (change crt files and -D macros if I recall).

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      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-10-17 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-17 17:28 OLD gcc source needed ian reinhart geiser
1999-10-17 17:27 ` David Edelsohn
1999-10-17 17:45   ` ian reinhart geiser
1999-10-17 21:32   ` Michael Meissner [this message]

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