Re: OS/2 port of gcc/g++?

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From: James Van Artsdalen
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 23:44

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In <1991Jun20.113229.27552@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>, ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au
	(Anthony Murdoch) wrote:

> More importantly - is someone going to look at porting gcc/g++ to
> OS/2 v2 when it is released properly??  It would be soooo much better
> if it produced 32bit code

I ported gcc1 to use Intel's 386 syntax.  Unfortunately, at that time
I could find no Intel-syntax assembler that worked in `use32' mode,
including the OS/2 2.0 assembler.

The port of gcc to produce Intel-syntax is easy.  The problem is that
there isn't much use for the output yet.
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen          james@bigtex.cactus.org   "Live Free or Die"
Dell Computer Co    9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759         512-338-8789

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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 port of gcc/g++?
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