Re: Wanted GnuC for 286 AT

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From: David Kastrup
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 15:34

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mcastle@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:

>In article <hm349wo.717248114@duc220> hm329sc@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Scheunemann) writes:
>>Help!
>>I am searching about a view weeks for a Gnu C-Compiler to run on a 286 AT.

>Probably will never happen.  gcc was devloped to be a portable 32-bit compiler.
>Since the 286 is only 16-bit, it will probably never be supported.  You can
>always get the compiler, and try to port it, but you will probably have a lot 
>of headaches.

Forget it. The 286 has not the addressing capabilities needed. You would
have to fight it through with protected mode, and all of the operations
assume nonsegmented registers. Not even a crosscompiler would be reasonably
implementable on the basic GNU model.

But you will get 386 motherboards for about 150$ or so. That is cheaper
than the price for some commercial compilers.

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