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I am planning to port gcc (& friends) to the new PenPoint OS.
(PenPoint is a pen-based, multitasking, multithreaded, vm, 32-bit, etc OS
which runs on a few processors including the x86)

I have little compiler, but plenty of porting experience.  I can deal with
creating a unix-like environment (library and shell) for gcc and its tools.

Where does one start?  I downloaded the sources for the OS/2 port of gcc.
PenPoint uses the OS/2 2.0 EXE file format and both OS's have flat 32bit
memory models.  Currently, PenPoint programs are compiled in DOS or OS/2
with Watcom's compiler, so that is my compiler until gcc self-compiles.
The PenPoint SDK has enough unix-like (POSIX) runtime libraries (actually
DLL's) to compile unix-like programs.  I chosen the right sources to start
with?  I only plan I getting gcc, not g++ running, as PenPoint only requires
ANSI C.

How long should I expect this to take?  I have one full time person working
on the port, plus a little more time from others to solve the tricky OS
problems.

Any help and advice is greatly appreciated :-)

  Michael Libes
  Sharpened Software Inc.
  sharpen@halcyon.com