3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
7:34 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:00:02PM +0100, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
Well. Maybe C was modeled after that assembler code. ;-)
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Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
GCC version 3.x generates code that, um, sucks. For
most C-based
programming, there is absolutely no reason to "upgrade" beyond the
older (V2.95.3) release, which works fine with the pdp11 backend.
GCC 2.95 has
serious problems corss compiling across the LP32 / LP64
boundary. I can say this out of my own experience as a NetBSD hacker.
You can't
simply cross compile the "as" from 2.11BSD because it's
written in assembler. (but it sure looks like it was C at point)
No, UNIX as was
always written in assembler, although they did use
some tools to clean it up later on. Later (non-PDP11) versions were
in C, obviously.