Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 15:24:48 EST
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: david AT istwok DOT ods DOT com
Cc: boutell AT freezer DOT cns DOT udel DOT edu, csa AT pennies DOT sw DOT stratus DOT com,
        djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Reasons not to use DJGPP :-)
Status: O

>I haven't heard much about gcc2, but I thought I heard that it will have
>better support for cross compilation.  Although I use djgpp occasionally,
>my main work deals with embedded systems (currently with a 68030).  Just
>for grins, I tried compiling a version of djgpp for the 68k a while back.
>Gas ported easily and appeared to work rather well, but cc1 and the rest
>needed a *lot* more work than I was willing to spend at the time.  So ...
>my question is how hard will it be using djgpp2 to create a version that
>runs under DOS but generates 68k executables?

Actually, quite easy.  Gcc2 will have the DOS patches in it already,
and I've done a port to a proprietary platform with it already (for
money, of course).  It was quite easy.

DJ
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