GCC for pdp11

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

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> On 07/13/2018 02:32 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> > Gentlepeople,
> >
> > Once in a while people ask about GCC.  It has long had pdp11 support,
> but it hasn't received much attention.  Recently I've done some cleanup on
> it, and some more is in the pipeline.
> >
> > One notable new feature is that it can now produce proper DEC Macro-11
> syntax output.  It has long had a -mdec-asm switch, but that used to
> produce GNU output.  Now it produces DEC output (and -mgnu-asm is how you
> get output for "gas".)
> >
> > The optimizer is better, and a bunch of compiler failures are fixed.
> Undoubtedly there are more bugs to be worked on.
> >
> > Oh yes, for grins I told GCC to build not just a C compiler but a C++
> and Fortran compiler as well.  That seems to work (but I get an error
> building the libstdc++ library).  I now have C++ translations of the RSTS
> standard header files common.mac and kernel.mac, and the DECnet definitions
> in netdef.sml.  :-)
> >
> > If anyone wants to give this a try, the best way is to get the current
> code via Subversion (see gcc.gnu.org for details).  Alternatively, get a
> weekly snapshot; the DEC support is in the current latest, though some
> optimizer work will appear in the next one.
> >
> >
>
> I am going to have to take a look at this.  I have been meaning
> to dig out a really old version of GCC because I thought they
> removed all the PDP-11 stuff ages ago.  This could be fun again.
>

Can it build interesting things like V7 and/or 2BSD?

Warner