[Coco] gcc6809: history + current information

[William Astle]

David Flamand has made some updates and I believe still uses as6809.

However, gcc 4.3 does not build cleanly (or at all) on modern 64 bit 
platforms and that is a problem with the core gcc itself. This may be 
what causes trouble if anyone is trying to build either the Dominy or 
Flamand versions and it is failing.

I'm not aware of anyone else who ported it forward to 4.6. The gcc 4.6 
version actually does quite a lot better at optimizing and it *does* 
build cleanly on modern 64 bit platforms.


On 2019-10-21 8:07 p.m., James Ross wrote:
> William Astle wrote:
>> ... A while back, I forward ported it to a newer
>> version of gcc that actually builds cleanly on 64 bit systems and there
>> have been a few bug fixes since then. ...
> 
> Thanks for the reply William!
> 
> I found it under lwtools-4.17/extra.
> 
> I did a cursory check for "gcc6809" on the web
> 
> the original looks to be here
> https://code.google.com/archive/p/gcc6809/
> 
> Brian Dominy's version ... based off 4.3.6
> https://github.com/bcd/gcc and
> https://github.com/bcd/newlib-6809
> 
> David Flamand release looks to be here (also gcc 4.3.6) -- could be same as Brian Dominy's?
> https://gitlab.com/dfffffff/gcc6809
> 
> Tormod's PPA has releases of 4.6.4-0 version (assuming based of yours William?)
> https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive/ubuntu/m6809
> 
> Those seem to be the primary places w/o digging too deep.
> 
> one day in the future when I feel like a real challenge, I may try building it for fun (and/or self punishment?!), and documenting the process for posterity...
> 
> James
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