[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] GCC Update

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 28 July 2005 10:34, James Diffendaffer wrote:
>--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, Gene Heskett
> <gene.heskett at v...>
>
>wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 July 2005 03:23, James Diffendaffer wrote:
>> Are you familiar with the diff command from the *nix camp?
>
>I've spent a lot of time developing for one *nix or another.
>Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, DEC Unix... and that's just what I remember.
>
>I also develope under Cygwin a lot and the environment I had on the
>Amiga supported most *nix commands including diff.
>
>>  If so,
>> then you should work against an unpatched tree for gcc, doing your
>
><snip>
>
>> start with the current version 4.0.1 srcs available from gnu.org,
>> which is currently in a state of flux as they look for reasons why
>> it won't compile the x.org X suite among other things.
>
>As far as I've been able to tell (having looked at GCC for all of a
>few days) the GCC compiler deals with the target CPU in a very
>abstract manner and just makes calls to the target specific code
>generator/peephole optimizer routines to output code.  I don't have
> to touch anything but those routines.  It's highly unlikely I'll
> need to make any modifications due to their changes but I'll need
> to be able to diff versions to be sure.
>
>I'm currently using the 4.0.1 srcs.
>
>> As there will likely be a 4.0.2 shortly because of this, use the
>> diff
>
>I expect them to release a lot of fixes over the next few months but
> I think my code will remain unchanged except possibly a config file
> or two anyway.
>
Whatever it takes to make the main executive aware that it has 6x09 
code available, and eventually the transmission of the -os9l1 or 
-os9l2 flags in case you get it to do os9 code.

>I pretty sure the broken stuff is going to be in the internal GCC
> code logic generation and optimization stuff that takes place well
> before it converts it's internal code to target specific code.
>
Thats the impression I'm getting from the messages that go by on lkml.

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