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From: Zach Heilig <heilig AT cs DOT und DOT nodak DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Making a C Compiler?
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp (Stephen Turnbull)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 10:21:05 -0600 (CST)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Stephen Turnbull says:
> I'm also afraid that 32-bit-ness is presumed throughout.  Ie, there is
> not going to be a retargeting of the GCC compiler to build DOS
> small-model programs, and probably not your processor either.  :-( 
> This I don't know for sure (eg, there is GCC for Cray and Alpha
> machines), but that's the first big hangup to worry about.

I've seen gcc compiled to cross-compile for the 6809 cpu (an old 8-bit
motorola chip).  I don't remember where to get it (I thought it was available
by ftp from chestnut.cs.wisc.edu, but when I looked, it wasn't there).

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Zach Heilig                            | If this was a virus,
heilig AT aero DOT und DOT nodak DOT edu              | you would be dead now.

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