[HECnet] gcc for pdp11

[Steve Davidson]

Paul Koning

Does anyone here use gcc for the pdp11?

I've been doing some work on it to clean it up.   For one thing, it now =
builds, which certainly is a useful start... :-)

I've been playing with the idea of writing an 82586 driver (UGH!) for =
the Pro for RSTS, and seeing how disgustingly sick that chip is, doing =
it from scratch, or even seriously transforming existing assembly =
language drivers, is an unpleasant notion.   On the other hand, doing it =
in C (more precisely, borrowing from, say, the NetBSD driver, changed as =
needed) seems more palatable.

I *think* gcc is close to being able to handle that job.   So I'll =
probably be using it for that purpose.   Am I the only user of that =
compiler or are there others?

	paul



Paul,

Will "gcc" build for the VAX (or Alpha) so it can be used as a cross compiler
for the 11's on those platforms?

-Steve