Re: XDisplayName & X on the RT PC

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From: Win Treese
Date: Fri, 08 May 1987 21:42

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> We've had problems with hc too.  I haven't had time to really look into
> why xterm core dumps under hc, mainly because it isn't compatible with
> dbx and I can't and won't use the assembly language debugger (a major
> problem with RISC machines in my mind).

Strange.  We had no problems with the X10.4 xterm compiled under hc, though
there were some minor changes necessary to get it to comile.

> When we tried it, hc would blow up trying to compile the RT server from
> Brown.  Even compiling simplier things like bib86 didn't work.  So we
> are using pcc exclusively now, until hc settles down.

The Brown X server code used macros that expanded into lines too long for hc
to handle.  This (and some other problems) have been fixed and should be in
later versions of hc.

	Win Treese
	MIT Project Athena
	treese@athena.MIT.EDU

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