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Article #31895Re: looking for a C compiler that runs on a vax and produces ST code
From: Barnacle Wes
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 18:16
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1988 18:16
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In article <3208@hcr.UUCP>, miken@hcr.UUCP (Mike Nemeth) writes:
> the subject line says it all folks. does there exist such a beastie?
The summary line says it all folks. I've seen ads lately in either
Dr. Dobb's Journal or Computer Language. I think Atari did most of
their early development using an Alcyon compiler running on a VAX with
Unix. Can anyone at Atari verify this?
Whitesmiths also has VAX-hosted cross-compilers that generate 68000
code. I don't know if they have a GEMDOS library, but it would not be
hard to write interfaces to the BIOS, XBIOS, and DOS calls, and then
modify the standard library to use the interface routines for
low-level I/O.
Last, but CERTAINLY not least, you could try MWC. I'm pretty sure
they DON'T develope MWC on STs :-). It would probably be a fairly
quick process for them to prepare their compiler to be a cross-
compiler; they may have already done it in-house. Most compilers are
"boot-strapped" by compiling the code on a system that already has a
compiler, then running the source for the compiler through itself.
Given my drudthers, and enough budget, I'd get MWC, but I'm
prejudiced.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!petro!swrinde!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: looking for a C compiler that runs on a vax and produces ST code Message-ID: <142@obie.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 88 18:16:35 GMT References: <3208@hcr.UUCP> Organization: the Well of Souls Lines: 28 Summary: Try the Alcyon cross-compiler Yah, Alcyon, that's right!