[Coco] Devastated. Long term OVCC project falls short

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Mon Oct 21 01:50:04 EDT 2019


On Sunday 20 October 2019 23:15:07 William Astle wrote:

> On 2019-10-20 7:13 p.m., Walter Zambotti wrote:
> > Tormod.
> >
> > Thanks for reminding me.!
> >
> > I had it installed on my system.
> >
> > In regards to gcc6809 I was wondering what options are required to
> > create OS9 asm or object files.
> >
> > Walter
>
> gcc6809 cannot generate OS9 binaries. Its support for position
> independent code is largely untested and almost certainly incomplete
> and it doesn't understand the specific requirements of the OS9
> environment.

I can confirm that too, its a total waste of time to attempt an os9 
binary because of that problem using gcc6809. It knows nothing about 
PIC. AFAIAC it should be removed from circulation.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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