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- From: root@frmxqnx.hanse.de (Frank Rabe)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
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- Subject: Re: About the ACK ANSI compiler... [not the
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- Organization: frmxqnx running Minix-386
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 20:19:20 +0100
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- yee@mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee) writes:
- : About using GCC, I am under the impression that you need the MINIX 386
- : extensions in order to use it. The limitations of out-of-the-box MINIX
- : is far too restrictive. I note that the out-of-the-box LINUX will run
- : GCC and other freely-redistributable tools quite happily.
- :
- Yes, you need MINIX 386 to run GCC and it is big and slow.
- I believe there is no way of porting GCC to all minix platforms.
- But is this also true for the cvw4.1 compiler.
- It is my main compiler under MINIX 386 and it does a famous job.
- Cvw4.1 is also available for 68000 minix's. There is a new bcc-as and bcc-ld
- which supports floating point and someone have posted diffs to use them
- under MINIX 386. Cvw4.1 is not ANSI but comes closer.
-
- So, you minix compiler experts, what do you thing?
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- A free minix compiler with source, small and fast, but not complete ANSI
- would be better then a ANSI(?) compiler without source for 199$.
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- Enjoy,
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- Frank
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