[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: gcc for OS-9 Level II

[John E. Malmberg]

[bcc to the yahoo groups since I do not know if the gateway is
  bidirectional yet]

sneakerpimps wrote:
> 
> Anyway, I've got a PowerBook G3 Firewire (G3 400MHz) with Debian Linux
> Testing/Unstable installed on it. (As well as MacOS X 10.2.x, but that
> ain't my main OS.) I've seen a few pages up that say that I can
> compile and create C and C++ binaries for 6809 OS-9 using a specially
> compiled version of GCC. I did try a few of these, but never got my
> machine to compile GCC because it didn't recognize the 6809 option
> included with the compile. (Or something to that effect, it's been a
> little while.)

> So does anyone have anything that could help me along here? I mean, I
> wouldn't think that it would be a problem, but should I try this on a
> x86 machine? Does someone have binaries that they could pass on?
> 
> Anything would help, really. I would love to have an up-to-date c and
> c++ compiler that I can use for the Coco, even if it's not on the
> Coco.

Set your news reader have an additional news server at news.gmane.org 
and then subscribe to gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco so that you can see 
past discussions on this.

http://skwirl.ca/coco/gcc.html

http://encompasserve.org/~malmberg/coco/GCC09_BUILD_NOTES.TXT.

I have made a little progress since then, but the problem is that I can 
not cross compile the libgcc routine that deals with double floating 
because GCC is out of registers.

It appears that a fix to this may require changing the .md, .h, and .c 
files around, and I am not up to the task as there is essentially no 
documentation on how to do this.

I think the short time I may change the libgcc routine that is not 
building so that it does not try to compile that routine.

Right now the compiler is emitting assembler language, and I would need 
an assembler to produce machine code.

Right now I am trying to get my COCO files transfered from floppy up ot 
run on MESS.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
Personal Opinion Only


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