Greg Haerr writes:
>
> On Monday, December 06, 1999 7:28 AM, Scott Dudley wrote:
> :
> : Has anyone attempted to compile bcc with itself (8086 target)? I did so
> but
> : attempts to execute the binary on ELKS cause lock-ups. Stumbled across a
> psion
> : page some time back where author indicated that he had compiled bcc with
> an
> : 8086 compiler and it worked(?).
>
> I've been working on this and have bcc, as86, ld86 and ar86 running
> cross-compiled. But there's a bunch of memory limitation problems.
> bcc needs to be compiled with a special model, which I forget. It
> also has some built-in asm language stuff that needs hacking out.
>
>
>
> Would very much like to have a native
> : development environment on ELKS to avoid sneaker net.
>
> I fully support that idea. I've also got versions of libc-8086 and the
> minix libraries cross compiled, but the libc.a is too large for the
> ELKS file system, since ELKS has a filesystem implementation problem
> for any file > 512k!!!!
>
# ls -l /usr/local/bcc/lib/bcc/i86/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 Sep 27 17:29 crt0.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5924 Sep 27 17:29 libbsd.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83740 Sep 27 17:29 libc.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83232 Apr 14 1999 libc_f.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50544 Apr 14 1999 libc_s.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51200 Apr 14 1999 libdos.a
#
The library is only 84K at most, and none of the source files are any size
at all according to a find I ran over it. Why is the 512K limit a problem
at the moment?
Al
