2 Feb
2004
2 Feb
'04
10 p.m.
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Brad Parker wrote:
concerning gcc/binuils & pdp-11
- gcc's (3.3.2) backend generates "unix" style asm
- gas wants "gas" style asm and doesn't like the "unix" style
asm
- the pdp-11 gcc maintainer knows this and has some fixes which he's
going to release soon
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.
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.
--f