I am still lurking, but not very frequently.
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> Last night, I got bcc, as86 and ld86 running on ELKS.
> However, bcc can't quite compile itself, because it doesn't support
> the STDC ## operator, which is used in bcc.c. I worked around this.
bcc.c is also _very_ messy and ugly. It needs a rewrite really.
> So I started cross-compiling the ELKS kernel with my new tools,
> initially using the elkemu emulator.
>
> The problem is that bcc calls unproto and copt, both of which
> won't compile with bcc.
I tend to ignore unproto, but it isn't difficult to get copt to
compile but that isn't the problem the problem is that copt loads
the entire assembler source into memory. The thing is it shouldn't
have to as it's only a peephole optimiser.
> I'm thinking about getting involved with all this, but there's
> considerable changes required to the tools. Do we want
> to have our own distribution of bcc? Maybe not. It doesn't
> appear that Rob de Bath is lurking this list anymore.
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Rob. (Robert de Bath <http://poboxes.com/rdebath>)
<rdebath @ poboxes.com> <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
